Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.