"The poet should seize the Particular, and..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.”

“An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.”

“No one should be rich except those who understand it.”

“He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.”

“Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades!Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids!O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,--Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!”

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”

“An art thief is a man who takes pictures.”

“In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power—until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is—art.”

“Music is everybody's possession.”