Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.