But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
“Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.”
“To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.”