Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.

Good drama must be drastic.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.