“From oriole to crow, note the declineIn music. Crow is realist. But, then,Oriole, also, may be realist.”

“Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.”

“I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.”

“They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne.We shall return at twilight from the lecturePleased that the irrational is rational”

“Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreamsAnd our desires.”

“From this the poem springs: that we live in a place That is not our own and, much more, not ourselves And hard it is in spite of blazoned days.”

“I was the world in which I walked, and what I sawOr heard or felt came not but from myself;And there I found myself more truly and more strange.”