“There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.”
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
