“أيها العالم! الغناء الصافي لأحزان جديدة!”

“I could never throw Love out of the window.”

“The same bourgeois magic everywhere the mail train sets you down.”

“O seasons, O castles,What soul is without flaws?All its lore is known to me,Felicity, it enchants us all.”

“Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”

“Pagan blood returns!”

“I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer. You won't understand any of this, and I'm almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It's really not my fault.”