The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

Beware of long arguments and long beards.

When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.