“But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only...” — Alfred de Vigny Quote

“But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.”

“I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.”

“The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.”

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”

“In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.”

“We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.”