It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

God and other artists are always a little obscure.