To be modern means to like antique furniture – and youthful neurosis.

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted.

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share.

How we feel is how we want to be heard.

We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.

Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.