Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.