We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.

History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.

What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence makes itself felt above that of the model... With the writer, line takes precedence over form and content. It runs through the words he assembles. It strikes a continuous note unperceived by ear or eye. It is, in a way, the soul's style, and if the line ceases to have a life of its own, if it only describes an arabesque, the soul is missing and the writing dies.

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.

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.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.