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.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

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

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.

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