Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.
Poetry makes nothing happen.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
The friends who met here and embraced are gone,Each to his own mistake;
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.
You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.
I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.
Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a yo...
Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.
The More Loving OneLooking up at the stars, I know quite wellThat, for all they care, I can go to hell,But on earth indifference is the leastWe have to dread from man or beast.How should we like it we...
When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.
And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.
And maps can really point to placesWhere life is evil now:Nanking. Dachau.
In the prison of his daysTeach the free man how to praise
In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst human vice, collective egotism.
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
We must love one another or die
I write because I love to play with language.
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and see our illusions die.
The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned...
