The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

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

At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.