Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.

Harvey, Galileo, Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the se…

The poet, says Baudelaire, is a decipherer, a Kabbalist of reality, a decoder. Ordinary life, if it is not a message in code, a system of symbols for something…

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, 'What man does with his aloneness.''