"I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it."

"I wish I could write as I feel—no, I mean as I feel in the day-time—for at night I feel like a demon."

"The soul of a poem, its very essence, is its rhythm."

"The world is a theatre, and we are merely players."

"The ‛Imp of the Perverse’ is a radical, a primitive impulse—elementary, and altogether indissoluble."