Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.