"True works of art are a manifestation..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.”

“We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.”

“Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.”

“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.”

“Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it the tanner who has barked it, or he who has boxed it for turpentine, whom posterity will fable to have been changed into a pine at last? No! no! it is the poet: he it is who makes the truest use of the pine-who does not fondle it with an axe, nor tickle it with a saw, nor stroke it with a plane. . . .”

“Music is the mirror of reality.”

“I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days into the interior and back parts even of many of the old States, to come to that very America which the Northmen, and Cabot, and Gosnold, and Smith, and Raleigh visited.”

“For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace.”

“As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.”