Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation.

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.