Genius lasts longer than beauty
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.