Darkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.

To know the abyss of the darkness and not to fear it, to entrust oneself to it and whatever may arise from it—what greater gift?

I proclaim night more truthful than the day.

For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.

Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.