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.
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The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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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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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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