I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

One may gain one truth at the expense of another.

Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.

But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.