I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold.

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.

Tears fall in my heart As tears fall on the town.

La musique avant toute chose.

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!

A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.

When your soul whispers listen, when your heart speaks listen. Whenever you know it's real love, don't let it pass you by.

During our time together in this place Holly didn’t outright avoid me or treat me rudely. But she wasn’t—how do women like to put it? She wasn’t emotionally available to me.

Without dignity, identity is erased.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

The sun and moon shine on all without partiality.

A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

There will never be a better time to start quitting smoking than today

In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.