For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.

Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.

A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.