Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

The threshold is the place of expectation.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.