People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.
I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.
The dead don't die. They look on and help.
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.
In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and no return. The body remains, in a sense, a corpse, after the act of self-abuse. There is no change, only deadening. There is what we call dead loss. And this is not the case in any act of sexual intercourse between two people. Two people may destroy one another in sex. But they cannot just produce the null effect of masturbation.
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
I always try to do something nobody else has done.
Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know. . . Head and heart. . . You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.
The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.