“I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors never cease to find mindless pleasure are the hieroglyphics of a secret, inexhaustible wisdom. I sometimes… — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
“the activity of modern poets stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were building a pyramid, the monstruos residence of a dead… — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has… — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
“To be modern means to like antique furniture - and youthful neurosis.” — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
“I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors… — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
