Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who have here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come.
Humanity is a comic role.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.