Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.

A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.