One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should be said, or to say many things which did not need to be said. The first is the original sin of synthetic natures, the latter of analytical natures.

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

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

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.

Honor is the mysticism of legality

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.

The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation.