Det skjønneste dikt er livet - det som leves mens det diktes.
Journal Intime (1882).
Skrevet i dagboka på 31-årsdagen.
The most beautiful poem there is, is life - life which discerns its own story in the making.
The most beautiful poem there is, is life - life which discerns its own story in the making, in which inspiration and self-consciousness go together and help each other, life which knows itself to be the world in little, a repetition in miniature of the divine universal poem.
Nasjonalitet: sveitsisk
Tittel: filosof og forfatter
Levde: 1821 - 1881