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.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

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.