One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo

My only politics have been friendship.

The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.