Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.

The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.