Always be a poet, even in prose.
Always be a poet, even in prose.
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
There exist only three respectable beings the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories