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

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

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

We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion.

Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.

Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.