The poetic image exists apart from causality.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

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.

I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting.

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

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

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