"What is a poet? An unhappy being who conceals profound agonies in his heart but whose lips are so formed that when the sighs and cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music."

"The highest task of a human being is to understand himself."

"The more a person has developed his mind, the more he is capable of being depressed."

"Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy – to be someone who is brisk about their food and work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the no…"

"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen, but, if one will, are to be lived."