No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves …

While [Shakespeare] darts himself forth, and passes into all the forms of human character and passion, the one Proteus of the fire and the flood; [Milton] attr…

This power...reveals itself in the balance or reconcilement of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general with the concrete…

Lichtenberg digs deeper than anyone: . He speaks from the subterranean depths. Only he who himself digs deep hears him.

The poet:who is the legislator of generations and the moral instructor of the world.

I would like not to cut any new channels of consciousness but simply dig deeper into old ones that have become silted in with the debris of thoughts grown stal…