Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

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.