How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.