It is good insofar as it is not evil.

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

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

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

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.