The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
Why doesn’t the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?
In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.
Whatever God there is is slowly eliminating the guts and alimentary system from the human being, to evolve a higher, more spiritual being.
The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.
That’s it! When you come to know men, that’s how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.
When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.
The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it’s touch we’re afraid of.
Where sanity is there God is.
It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.
Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.
Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.
You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.
My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry – all literature in fact – to the droppings of the goats among the rocks – mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.
Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.
Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.
I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct – and societal repression much more devastating.
It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he’d just laugh.