Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
Space is to place as eternity is to time.