Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

You can only predict things after they have happened.

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.