Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

You don't have the right to complain about your life if you're not willing to change it

There is a myth at the heart of things and some element of genius in the heart of each person.

The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia!

There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.

Pardon ever follows sincere repentence.

The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?

When stuff is coming to an end, people freak out and they act crazy.

You get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be.

News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.

I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.