Mistakes - mistakes - you yourself are a unique mistake!

I shall seize fate by the throat.

I love a tree more than a man.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes.