The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.