Hugo Von Hofmannsthal quotes:

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

How we feel is how we want to be heard.

The activity of modern poets stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were building a pyramid, the monstruos residence of a dead King or an unborn God.

Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share.

We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.

Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.