If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.Franz Grillparzer
Every mistake has three stages first, it is made, second, it is not admitted, and third, its claimed it didnt make any difference anyway.
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Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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