I can no longer say my love and your love; they are both alike in their perfect mutuality.
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.