An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.
The poetic image exists apart from causality.
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.