Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us.
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.