Occupation: Poet Birth: February 10, 1898 Death: August 14, 1956
I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?.
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group..
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it..
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!.
Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them..
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost..
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal..
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming..
First the pork chops, then morality.
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first..
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others..
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself..
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn..
Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Sh….
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing..
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them..
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong..
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense. S….
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains..
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sun….
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. No….