Wit Is Absolutely Sociable Spirit Or Aphoristic

A Definition Of Poetry Can Only Determine What Poetry Should Be And Not What Poetry Actually Was And Is; Otherwise The Most Concise Formula Would Be: Poetry Is That Which At Some Time And Some Place Was Thus Named.

Just As A Child Is Really A Thing That Wants To Become A Man, So Is The Poem An Object Of Nature That Wants To Become An Object Ofart.

Laziness Is The One Divine Fragment Of A Godlike Existence Left To Man From Paradise.

No Idea Is Isolated, But Is Only What It Is Among All Ideas.

In Many A Poetic Work, One Gets Here And There, Instead Of Representation Merely A Title Indicating That This Or That Was Supposedto Be Represented Here, That The Artist Has Been Prevented From Doing It And Most Humbly Asks To Be Kindly Excused.