“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable”

“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create”

“A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else”

“Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry”

“Nature is the art of God”

“I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up”