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.

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

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

With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

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