Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.
Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music
To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
Nothing can be done except little by little.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.
Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human. . . and we are the people driving that change.