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

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.

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.

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

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

The law hath not been dead though it hath slept.

If Roosevelt were alive he'd turn in his grave.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

They seem to be in total, if not complete control

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

People can be cruelest to those they love.

Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.