Prayers are offered up daily - without charge... Refreshments are served when demanded.

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.