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

What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.

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

If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.