Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

Endlich, wie denn in dieser Welt jedes noch so hartnäckige Stehenbleiben doch nur ein unvermerktes Weiterrücken ist, erscheint auch diesem Status quo ein Hoffnungsstrahl.

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.