Profession: Poet
Nationality: German
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
