It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.
E. T. A. HoffmannEvery year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.
E. T. A. HoffmannMozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life.
E. T. A. HoffmannHuman beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.
E. T. A. Hoffmann