Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.

Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.

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

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.

To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.