Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

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

Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.

Man is an imagining being.

Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.

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

There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!