Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies.

Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul of the world, participating in the soul of the world. Thus, from the world to the man, alchemy is a problem of souls.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

The blank page gives us the right to dream.

Our house is our corner of the world.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.