“I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.”

“I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.”

“(Life) it was a little bit nearer than God, but no less powerful and terrible. Yes, it was something, perhaps, that one did not wish to understand because one feared it, something to which one paid tribute lest it should feel offended and seize one, body and soul.”