Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Time itself is an element.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.