The real genres: good and bad.

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

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.

Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.