Piet Hein's Poetry, by title

• A Maxim for Vikings

  Here is a fact
  that should help you fight a bit longer:

  4 lines
• A Psychological Tip

  Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,
  and you're hampered by not having any,

  8 lines
• A Reproof

  In view of your manner
  of spending your days

  8 lines
• A Tip

  Those
  who can write

  8 lines
• A Word of Encouragement

  Stomach-ache can be a curse;
  heart-ache may be even worse;

  4 lines
• A Word to the Wise

  Let the world pass in its time-ridden race;
  never get caught in its snare.

  5 lines, 1 comment
• About Denmark

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

  4 lines
• Abreast

  He who aims
  to keep abreast

  4 lines
• An Ethical Grook

  I see
  and I hear

  12 lines
• Ars Brevis

  There is
  one art,

  8 lines, 1 comment
• Atomyriades

  Nature, it seems is the popular name
  for milliards and milliards and milliards

  4 lines, 1 comment
• Brave

  To be brave is to behave
  bravely when your heart is faint.

  4 lines
• Constitutional Point

  Power corrupts,
  whereas sound opposition

  8 lines
• Good Advice

  Shun advice
  at any price -

  4 lines
• Grook About Faith, Love, etc.

  She gave me hope
  she gave me love,

  6 lines, 1 comment
• I'd Like -

  I'd like to know
  what this whole show

  4 lines
• Investment Policy

  Anxieties yield
  at a negative rate,

  4 lines
• It Isn't Enough

  One paramount truth
  our society smothers

  8 lines
• Living Is -

  Living is
  a thing you do

  4 lines
• Making an Effort

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

  4 lines
• Mankind

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

  4 lines
• Meeting the Eye

  You'll probably find
  that it suits your book

  8 lines
• Memento Vivere

  Love while you've got
  love to give.

  4 lines
• Naive

  Naive you are
  if you believe

  4 lines
• Nothing Is Indispensable

  The universe may
  be as great as they say.

  4 lines
• On Being Oneself

  If virtue
  can't be mine alone

  4 lines
• Out of Time

  My old clock used to tell the time
  and subdivide diurnity;

  4 lines
• Pedagogical Grook

  for Mogens Lorentzen
  

  10 lines
• Prayer

  Sun that givest all things birth
  Shine on everything on earth!

  6 lines
• Presence of Mind

  You'll conquer the present
  suspiciously fast

  4 lines

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