Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.