"Always be a poet, even in prose."

"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk."

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

"Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul,that soft summer morninground a turning in the path,the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones,its legs in the air like a woman in needburning its wedding poisonslike a fountain with its rhythmic sobs,I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound,but I touch my body in vain to find the wound.I am the vampire of my own heart,one of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughterwho can no longer smile.Am I dead?I must be dead."

"And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!"

"I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy."

"Il était tard; ainsi qu'une médaille neuveLa pleine lune s'étalait,Et la solennité de la nuit, comme un fleuveSur Paris dormant ruisselait."

"If rape or arson, poison or the knifeHas wove no pleasing patterns in the stuffOf this drab canvas we accept as life -It is because we are not bold enough!"

"All dark, all bloody, my heart,"

"Minutes, foolish mortal, are the base mineralthat you must not let go of without extracting their gold!"