As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

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.

The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it

To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.