“None but a poet can understand a poet; none but a romantic spirit transported with poetry and consecrated in the Holy of Holies an comprehend what the ordained utters out of his inspiration.” — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“Perchance, dear reader, you will then believe that nothing is stranger and madder than actual life, and that this is all that the poet… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“So true it is, that even the shortest step out of the immediate circle of one's best friends, is equal, in effect, to the… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“With the confidence and peace of mind native to true genius, I lay my life story before the world, so that the reader may… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“We believed in another world, but we admitted the feebleness of our senses. Then came 'enlightenment,' and made everything so very clear and enlightened,… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“It may be, after all," said the Student Anselmus to himself, "that the superfine stomachic liqueur, which I took somewhat freely in Monsieur Conradi's,… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“But if, like a bold painter, you had first sketched in a few audacious strokes the outline of the picture you had in your… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“None but a poet can understand a poet; none but a romantic spirit transported with poetry and consecrated in the Holy of Holies an… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“If there is a dark and hostile power, laying its treacherous toils within us, by which it holds us fast and draws us along… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“She was not too tall, and of a voluptuous build, so that my eyes wandered amid many charms that hitherto had been strangers to… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, too, you will then believe that nothing is more wonderful, nothing more fantastic than real life, and that all that a writer can… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swift flight of fancy… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
