The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

History is the zoology of the human race.

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.