There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

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

I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.