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

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.

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

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

History is the zoology of the human race.