Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.
Seek my heart no longer; the beasts have eaten it.
Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve
I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.
L'orage rajeunit les fleurs
I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The rivers of dark smoke pour upward lazily, And the moon rise and turn them silver. I shall see Th...
Have you sunk into so deep a stupor that you are happy only in your unhappiness?-
Ant swarming CityCity full of dreams
France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
Le Goût du néantMorne esprit, autrefois amoureux de la lutte, L’Espoir, dont l’épéron attisait ton ardeur, Ne veut plus t’enfourcher! Couche-toi sans pudeur, Vieux cheval dont le pied à chaque obstacl...
Do you come from Heaven or rise from the abyss, Beauty?
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated...
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
What is art? Prostitution.