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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