15"General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.
We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.
In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
My father, my father, and dost thou not hearThe words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear?'Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives;Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,And not in utter loneliness to live,Myself at last did to the Devil give!
Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta
The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.