With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

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

If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

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

The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly; if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.