An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream.
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.