Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing that, he finds better ones.
One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
History is the science of what never happens twice.