Piet Hein's Poetry, by popularity

• Pedagogical Grook

  for Mogens Lorentzen
  

  10 lines
• Time and Eternity

  Where the woods and ploughlands
  of tradition and modernity

  8 lines
• Timing Toast

  There's an art of knowing when.
  Never try to guess.

  4 lines, 2 comments
• The State

  Nature, our father and mother,
  gave us all we have got.

  4 lines
• Similarity

  No cow's like a horse,
  and no horse like a cow.

  3 lines
• Wide Road

  To make a name for learning
  when other roads are barred,

  4 lines
• Wanting to Be Able To

  'Impossibilities' are good
  not to attach that label to;

  5 lines
• The Wisdom of the Spheres

  How instructive
  is a star!

  6 lines
• The Noble Art

  The noble art of Losing Face
  may one day save the Human Race

  4 lines
• Making an Effort

  Our so-called limitations,believe,
  apply to faculties we don't apply.

  4 lines
• Time

  Does time exist?
  I gravely doubt it.

  4 lines
• The Unattainable Ideal

  We ought to live
  each day as though

  8 lines
• Thoughts on a Station Platform

  It ought to be plain
  how little you gain

  8 lines
• Stone In Shoe

  If a nasty jagged stone
  gets into your shoe,

  4 lines
• The Ultimate Wisdom

  Philosophers
  must ultimately find

  6 lines
• The Only Solution

  We shall have to evolve
  problem-solvers galore-

  4 lines
• What People May Think

  Some people cower
  and wince and shrink,

  8 lines, 1 comment
• Reflection on Size

  Small people often overrate
  the charm of being tall;

  4 lines
• Two Passivists

  Eradicate the optimist
  who takes the easy view

  8 lines
• Mankind

  Men, said the Devil,
  are good to their brothers:

  4 lines
• Small Things and Great

  He that lets
  the small things bind him

  4 lines
• Rhyme and Reason

  There was an old woman
  who lived in a shoe.

  8 lines
• Investment Policy

  Anxieties yield
  at a negative rate,

  4 lines
• About Denmark

  Why not let us compromise
  about Denmark's proper size,

  4 lines
• Memento Vivere

  Love while you've got
  love to give.

  4 lines
• It Isn't Enough

  One paramount truth
  our society smothers

  8 lines
• Abreast

  He who aims
  to keep abreast

  4 lines
• Naive

  Naive you are
  if you believe

  4 lines
• On Being Oneself

  If virtue
  can't be mine alone

  4 lines
• An Ethical Grook

  I see
  and I hear

  12 lines

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