Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.