This is the reason why bards love wine, mead, narcotics, coffee, tea, opium, the fumes of sandalwood and tobacco, or whatever other...

The world being thus put under the mind for verb and noun, the poet is he who can articulate it. For, though life is great, and...

Letter XXVII DO not fear for reality and truth. Even if the elevated idea of æsthetic appearance became general, it would not become...

Letter XXIV ACCORDINGLY three different moments or stages of development can be distinguished, which the individual man, as well as the...

Letter XIX TWO principal and different states of passive and active capacity of being determined can be distinguished in man; in like...

Letter XVIII BY beauty the sensuous man is led to form and to thought; by beauty the spiritual man is brought back to matter and...

Undoubtedly the promoters of utility, in this limited sense, have their appointed office in society. They follow the footsteps of poets,...

Letter X CONVINCED by my preceding letters, you agree with me on this point, that man can depart from his destination by two opposite...

But I digress. The connection of scenic exhibitions with the improvement or corruption of the manners of men has been universally...

Letter VI HAVE I gone too far in this portraiture of our times? I do not anticipate this stricture, but rather another—that I have...