Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.
Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.
Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.
Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.
If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.
Prose talks and poetry sings.
Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.
The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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