Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.