“Above all things you will hold the Muses in reverence, even in singular veneration, and never make them serve dishonest things, jests, or injurious libels.”

Original: Sur toutes choses tu auras les Muses en reverence, voire en singuliere veneration, et ne les feras jamais servir à choses des-honnestes, à risées, ny à libelles injurieux. — The poet's calling is sacred and not to be cheapened · Abrégé de l'art poétique français, 1565 (French)

• Integrity
• Poetry
• Sacred

“The nakedness of woman is the work of God.”

The body is treated as sacred making, not a shame to be hidden · Proverbs of Hell, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

• Body
• Sacred
• Women

“Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted.”

Respect for the sacred and poetic in language · Conversation / essay (as commonly attributed)

• Language
• Poetry
• Sacred

“He who is set alone by God is brought all the closer to Him.”

Original: Enhver Gud setter ene, han selv er mere nær. — Finds spiritual intimacy within periods of solitary isolation · Reflective notes (Norwegian)

• Faith
• Sacred
• Solitude

“I have always loved the beautiful, and the beautiful has always seemed to me to contain something of the divine.”

Linking aesthetic beauty with a sense of transcendence. · Journal

• Art
• Beauty
• Sacred