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

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

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.

A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

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

In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants. So are the "wits" there too. They introduce into reality absolute freedom whose reflection lends a romantic and piquant air to wit, and thus they live wittily; hence their talent for madness. They die for their principles.