The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.