What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

To be free is often to be lonely.

A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.