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

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.

The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.

We understand nature by resisting it.

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

We must listen to poets.