Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthalwas an Austrian prodigy, a novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 February 1874
CountryAustria
maturity mature grows
To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.
creative reign impulse
The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.
littles spots knows
Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.
imagine fewer-friends fewer
We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.
wise wisdom want
How we feel is how we want to be heard.
reality europe revolution
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.
self enchantment found
Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.
music voice singing
Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.
lying reality enchantment
Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.
depth surface
Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.
language exhausted
Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted
reality political literature
Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.
life able firsts
First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.