I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these t...erms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Will lovely, lively, virginal today Shatter for us with a wing's drunken blow... This hard, forgotten lake haunted in snow By the sheer ice of flocks not flown away!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is only beauty--and it has only one perfect expression--Poetry. All the rest is a lie--except for those who live by the body..., love, and, that love of the mind, friendship.... For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dange...rous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »