«All rules are incorrect, / all laws remain perverse, / until they’re firmly set / in well wrought lines of verse. An age or era will / be merely a stretch of time / without a meaning until / it’s glorified in rhyme. Until the poet’s "Yes!", / entrusted by his pen / to print, ...»
«Sacred song heals the sick spirit. / The mysterious power of harmony / Will expiate a heavy delusion / And tame a revolting desire. / The soul of a singer expressed with a concordance / Is freed from all its woes, / And the sacred poetry will give purity / And peace to its compan...»
«Time's river in its rushing current / Sweeps all the human deeds away, / And fills an abyss of oblivion / With nations, kingdoms and their kings, / But if there is something remaining / Through sounds of lyre or trumpet’s air, / Will enter the Eternal gullet — / And will not fle...»
«O, burst out laughing, laughers! / O, set your laughing, laughers! / You who laugh with laughter and you who laugh off laughably, / O, laugh away laughingly! / O, laughable laughing-stocks' — the laughter of laughsome laughers! / O, laugh-in enlaughingly, the laughter of outlaughing lau...»