It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

We understand nature by resisting it.

By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

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