The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of poetic language only interpret what the poetry has already interpreted.

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.

The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.