To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
From Charles Baudelaire
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
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