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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.