The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses. Every form of love, of suffering,... of madness; he searches himself, he consumes all the poisons in him, and keeps only their quintessences.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto ...detestable--having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we shall take them, we shall comprehend them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For a long time I ... found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage sc...enery, mountebanks' backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers' novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an ennervation. Morality is the... weakness of the brain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »