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

Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.