Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.