Always be a poet, even in prose

Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances

Inspiration comes of working every day

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter molecules do not constitute form

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed

There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art