We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.

When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.

Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.