No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.