Hugo von Hofmannsthal Quotes

How we feel is how we want to be heard.

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share.

We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

First to become capable of love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted