Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.
There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.
The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.
... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.
When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.