Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also infinitelyvaluable. There are artists who perhaps do not think art to be too great, for this is impossible, and yet they are not free enough to be able to rise above their own best accomplishments.

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

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should be said, or to say many things which did not need to be said. The first is the original sin of synthetic natures, the latter of analytical natures.

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.