"To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of lang…"

"Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need."

"To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the d…"

"True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams."

"The reflected world is the conquest of calm"

"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house prot…"

"Words … are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common sense lives on the ground floor, always ready to e…"

"The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in."

"Poetry is one of the destinies of speech.... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to l…"

"There is no original truth, only original error."