If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
Nothing can be done except little by little.
A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.
Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.
Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections – that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.
Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.
A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.
Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.