So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.

Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.