“I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.”

“Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.”

“Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.”

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

“The beautiful is always bizarre.”

“What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.”

“Scarcely has night arrived to undeceive, unfurling her wings of crepe (wings drained even of the glimmer just now dying in the tree-tops); scarcely has the last glint still dancing on the burnished...”

“EVENTIDEDark and light strikingeach other,vividly etching wild colorsthrough the horizon.The charm of sunset makes me wantto scurry home.”

“The sun was still out, wouldnt even start to set for an hour, but the early evening still had that magic hour feeling. The air was warm and breezy. The houses looked sparkling with windows reflecti...”

“Gardens hush opens upan abyss at my center, still point.Someone touches me, mystery, otherness.No words are spoken, silencethe language of God.Silence, calm, hushed garden usher me into a presence,...”

“We are philosophers of our timeFloating in the moon's evening glow”

“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”

“Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans.”

“Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.”

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”