Inspiration comes of working every day.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.

I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born of our intimate union. A god we shall create together, and we shall soar heavenward like sunbeams, perfumes, butterflies, birds, and all winged things.