The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.

All words are prejudices.

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture.