Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.

Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

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

Transcendence: that which transcends experience.