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.

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

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

A little too much is just enough for me.

Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.

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.

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