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.

Called or not, God is always there.

How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.