The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.

Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

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

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

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