At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps even welcome, like clearings in the woods, the better to allow the heart's rays to stream out without obstacle. The unlit shadows should remain obscure, which is the very condition of enchantment.

Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green

It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.

The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.