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

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.

The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend had better remain unwritten. They would at least never become works of art.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.