Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

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.

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