Whoever Aspiring, Struggles On, For Him There

Give Shape, Artist! Don't Talk! Your Poem Be But A Breath.

Piety, Like Nobility, Has Its Aristocracy.

It Is Not Enough To Take Steps Which May Someday Lead To A Goal; Each Step Must Be Itself A Goal And A Step Likewise.

We Don't Get To Know People When They Come To Us; We Must Go To Them To Find Out What They Are Like.

There Is A Great Difference, Whether The Poet Seeks The Particular For The Sake Of The General Or Sees The General In The Particular. From The Former Procedure There Ensues Allegory, In Which The Particular Serves Only As Illustration, As Example Of The General. The Latter Procedure, However, Is Genuinely The Nature Of Poetry; It Expresses Something Particular, Without Thinking Of The General Or Pointing To It.