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.

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

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

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants to dream well to begin by being happy. Then reverie plays out its veritable destiny; it becomes poetic reverie and by it, in it, everything becomes beautiful. If the dreamer had "the gift" he would turn his reverie into a work. And this work would be grandiose since the dreamed world is automatically grandiose.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche