When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

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

Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.

The main thing is to know something and to say it.