Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him.
The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated
When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.