After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.