Opium resembles religion insofar as a magician resembles Jesus.

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

I am burning myself up and will always do so.

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

The purity of a revolution can last a fortnight. That is why a poet, the revolutionary of the soul, limits himself to the about-turns of the mind.