Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.

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.

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.