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

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

Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.

Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!

One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.