But Moreau was not taken in, and he notes that he quoted the poet’s words “in spite of the poetic exaggeration that marks them, and which it is useless to point out.” But then, for whom is this document intended? For the psychologist, or for the philosopher, who is interested in the poetic human being? In other words, is it the hashish or the poet that exaggerates? Alone, the hashish would not have succeeded in exaggerating so well. And we quiet readers, whose knowledge of hashish impressions has been acquired through literary proxy, would not hear colors shudder if a poet had not known how to
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