Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.

The victor is often vanquished by his own success.

He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.