Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

Everything in nature is resurrection.

Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.