Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

Translation is like a woman, ... If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.