Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless.

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

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.