And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!

Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don't know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.

What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

But the problem is to make the soul into a monster