The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.

When I speak it is in order to be heard.