A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

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

Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.

Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.