“If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.” — Charles Baudelaire

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

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.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.