Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the pleasure, for the sake of the difficulty. I have no social purpose, no moral message; I've no general ideas to exploit, I just like composing riddles with elegant solutions.

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly .

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?

A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.