For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

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

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

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.

Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.