Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.