Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs sh
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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with i
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People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nat
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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up
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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above all
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
Taste is the common sense of genius.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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