"Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine."

"The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?"

"God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?"

"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."

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."

"It is a enduring truth that do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold."

"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."

"We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous."