Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.

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

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?

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

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

Honor is the mysticism of legality

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.