Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.