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

- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

How we feel is how we want to be heard.

- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

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

- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

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

- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

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

- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

First to become capable of love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

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

- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal