There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.

My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!

Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!

We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

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