To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

We understand nature by resisting it.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal creation (as opposed to a didactic statement) from one language to another, he is confronted with two equally unsatisfactory choices. He may, according to his talents, elaborate a similar, but never identical creation, or he may describe that creation as completely as possible in his own language.

To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream.

Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.

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