One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
Man is an imagining being.
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
