Madeleine M.

“Poetry reveals a power of the unknown. But the unknown is only an insignificant void if it is not the object of a desire. Poetry is a middle term, it conceals the known within the unknown: it is the unknown painted in blinding colors, in the image of a sun.”
― Georges Bataille, The Impossible: A Story of Rats followed by Dianus and by The Oresteia

“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.”
― Georges Bataille

“Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.”
― Stephen Fry