Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.

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

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

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.

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.