Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.