Always be a poet, even in prose.

Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.