Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.