Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

Beyond myself, somewhere,
I wait for my arrival.

As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.