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.

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

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

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

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

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.