The English kill off all their poets by the time they're forty

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

...if you do not even understand what words say,
how can you expect to pass judgement
on what words conceal?

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.