Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.
I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
I studied Wilfred Owen for my English A Level, and that led me to Sassoon and Blunden, Rosenberg and Thomas.
I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget was that he also advocated, sternly and austerely, that one must be able to go through all that - and then articulate it.
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.