And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.
What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
Ignorance: the root of all evil.
For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.