Art is the educator of our sensibility; she can also be the instructor of our mind, on one condition: not to deprive us of delight.
By sincere artist I mean the artist whose ideal remains the same: undisputed harmony between the creation and the soul from which it originates.
In art, form is never perfect by itself, but by what it succeeds in expressing.
In art, matter and ideal are one: they cannot be separated.
In art as in nature, whatever embodies a harmony, before which both our senses and our thinking remain in a serene moment of aesthetic repose, may be immoral.
The genius of the people of which a great writer belongs permeates his work to its innermost structure, as does that hypothetical fluid which scientists say permeates the molecules and atoms of all bodies. And this phenomenon is necessary, it is part of the definition of the work of art.
Each individual art expresses its era. But woe and bitter if it only expresses that era. True art expresses all ages, because it expresses man.
In relation to reality, any work of art is an abstraction. Abstraction facilitates the removal of insignificant, external elements, as well as revealing the essence, the element of permanence.
All art is the elevation of life to the degree of the ideal.
Art as reproduction, as embodiment of the ideals, which are at the foundation of the people's life and determine their spiritual and moral physiognomy, constitutes one of the primordial qualities of man.
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop in which man must remain a simple worker.
A poet becomes a social factor only when his work is read even by those who do not ordinarily read poetry.
Only the history of the people can reveal their true demands and aspirations. The history of the people is a prerogative of the poet.
He who feels the joy of a work of art feels it because he creates it in himself, recreates it and recreates himself with it.
Modernity - fashion... Every writer with style is modern of his time, he is current in his actuality, and he who is current once, is current always. The passing actuality is not such an actuality. What is in one time and place is in all times and places, it is eternal and infinite. The universal and current terms for centuries are those that are more of their time and place.
Achieving the purity of art, the artist finds the way to act in any sense on man.
The poet is a man of his time.
Any work of art creates its own means of expression, taking advantage of previous experiences, but necessarily remaking them, because it is not a sum, but a synthesis, an invention.
The task of the artist is to objectify and bring out the social and inner universe, in such a way that the public can see in itself and in the world what its orientational tendency usually convinces it to hide and ignore.
The poetic idea is that which, put into prose, further advertises the verse.
Poetry is the attempt to represent, or to restore, with the help of articulate language, those things or that thing that the screams, tears, caresses, kisses, sighs, etc. try to express. And which the objects seem to want to express in everything they have as an appearance of life or as an assumed purpose.
Literature is and cannot be anything other than a kind of extension and application of certain properties of language.
The history of literature should not be the history of authors and the accidents of their fate or the fate of their works, but the history of the mind as a producer and consumer of literature. This history could be completed without mentioning any writer.
My lyrics have the meaning attributed to them.
A man who writes is never alone.
A work is constructed by a multitude of "spirits" and events (ancestors, states, hazards, previous writers, etc.) under the direction of the Author.
The contradictory condition of the artistic state: the artist must observe as if ignorant of everything and execute his work as if he knew everything.
Poetry: ... the art of abusing the resonance and occult sympathies of words.
Classic: ... a writer who carries within him a critic whom he intimately associates with his things.
Any nation begins / first through poetry, the being to understand.