And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously,... - Charles Baudelaire

"Always be a poet, even in prose."

"If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist."

"Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?"

"Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected."

"Inspiration comes of working every day."