Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

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.

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.