Chapter 75
The Pen and the InkstandIN a poet's room, where his inkstand stood on the table,
the remark was once made, "It is wonderful what can be brought out
of an inkstand. What will come next? It is indeed
wonderful."
"Yes, certainly," said the inkstand to the pen, and to the
other articles that stood on the table; "that's what I always say.
It is wonderful and extraordinary what a number of things come out
of me. It's quite incredible, and I really don't know what is
coming next when that man dips his pen into me. One drop out of me
is enough for half a page of paper, and what cannot half a page
contain? From me, all the works of a poet are produced; all those
imaginary characters whom people fancy they have known or met. All
the deep feeling, the humor, and the vivid pict
