There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

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