Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

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

The following are the universally fundamental laws of literary communication: 1. one must have something to communicate; 2. one must have someone to whom to communicate it; 3. one must really communicate it, not merely express it for oneself alone. Otherwise it would be more to the point to remain silent.

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

I can no longer say my love and your love; they are both alike in their perfect mutuality.