It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

I am the vampire at my own veins.