The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

The division of Philosopher and Poet is only apparent, and to the disadvantage of both. It is a sign of disease, and of a sickly constitution.

Goethe is an altogether practical Poet. He is in his works what the English are in their wares: highly simple, neat, convenient and durable. He has done in Ger…

The spirit of Poesy is the morning light, which makes the Statue of Memnon sound.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry, it's the…

It is as though a star throws the whole secret history of its being into its spectrum, and we have only to learn how to read it aright in order to solve the mo…

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.