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

The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.