In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside of himself, not forever, however, but only at first. For man cannot exist without a living center, and if he does not have it within himself, he may seek it only in a human being. Only a human being and his center can stimulate and awaken that of another.

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.