The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

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

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

Be strong and take action to achieve your dream.

He who fears alcohol MUST also fear ANGER, for anger is more powerful and dangerous than the alcohol.

The first years of man must make provision for the last.

Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives.

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

I want people to see that Christianity claims to be true in the deep sense, and if it isn't, then it solves nothing at all.

Most people don't think, they just rearrange their prejudices.

In a special sense... the three great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep contain an entire spectrum of spiritual enlightenment.

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.