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

"Always be a poet, even in prose."

"The beautiful is always bizarre."

"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk."

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."

"I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge."