What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need... - Charles Baudelaire

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

"And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!"

"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."

"Always be a poet, even in prose."

"To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts."