We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. The poet who walks by moonlight knows that the moon is the sun and that the darkness is a brilliant day.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

The task of the excellent poet is not to say the things that can be said about nature, but to say the things that cannot be said about it.

I conceive a man's body as a sort of fiery mist enmeshed in the cage of the skeleton, and mostly resulting from the circulation of the blood.