Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?
The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings
Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!
Hast thou found out, Voltaire, that it is bliss to die, And does thy hideous smile over thy bleached bones fly?
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.