Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.

If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like "Goodness alive!" would be the best criticism of the most deserving work of art. There are critiques which say nothing but that, only they do so more extensively.

Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also infinitelyvaluable. There are artists who perhaps do not think art to be too great, for this is impossible, and yet they are not free enough to be able to rise above their own best accomplishments.