Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with …

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaningof a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. In that case, you ask me, of what use is it? Of no use. Who will see it? No one. Which does n…