Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.

There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.

I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse.

A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.