"A Season in Hell" Quotes

I believe that I am in Hell, therefore I am.

I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer.

To be damned is to love oneself madly.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of squandering some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

The poet makes himself a seer by a long, immense, and reasoned derangement of all the senses.

What can one do in the face of this? Try my luck at anything whatever.

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

One must be absolutely modern.

The poet is a thief of fire.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.