“To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.”
“Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.”
“But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.”
“Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.”
“Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?”
“Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together.”