Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.

I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.