The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
A person is really dead only when nobody thinks of him anymore.
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
Temptation to behave is terrible.
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
One must live well to know what living is.
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
When you name yourself, you always name another.
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.