In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.

The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.