inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.

If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.

We always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.

Speech happens to not be his language.