There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law; I say you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden.

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.