It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.