In times of old when Nature in her glad excess Brought forth such living marvels as no more are seen, I should have loved to dwell with a young giant… - Charles Baudelaire

Alas, the vices of man, as horrifying as they are presumed to be, contain proof (if only in their infinite expansiveness!) of his bent for the infinite.

the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love

There is no reasonable, stable government save the aristocratic. Monarchy and republic, based on democracy, are equally weak and absurd. … There exist but three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create. Other men are serfs or slaves, created for the stable, that is, to exercise what are called professions.