What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is... lack of faith.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking. The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious, which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. The artist seizes on this image and, in raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.