If the genius is an artist, then he accomplishes his work as art, but neither he nor his work of art has a telos outside him. - Søren Kierkegaard

What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music… and men crowd about the poet and say to him: “Sing for us soon again”; that is as much to say: May new sufferings torment your soul.

He who loved himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.

Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory."