A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.