Grau, theurer Freund, ist alle Theorie,<br - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever is the lot of humankind
I want to taste within my deepest self.
I want to seize the highest and the lowest,
to load its woe and bliss upon my breast,
and thus expand my single self titanically
and in the end go down with all the rest.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

Think of you! I do not think of you; you are always before my soul.