"Of all the arts poetry (which owes..." - Quote by Immanuel Kant

“The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.”

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.”

“One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.”

“Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.”

“Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust, She that was young and fair Fallen to dust. Lily-like, white as snow, She hardly knew She was a woman, so Sweetly she grew. Coffin-board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, I vex my heart alone She is at rest. Peace, Peace, she cannot hear Lyre or sonnet, All my life’s buried here, Heap earth upon it.”

“Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.”

“I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.”

“You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.”

“A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.”