I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

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.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.