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

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.