The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'

I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.