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

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

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

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 repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

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

There is no original truth, only original error.

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

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

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