7 quotes found
Poet · French · 1897–1982
French poet (1897–1982)
“As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!”
“Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.”
“It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.”
“We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.”
“Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?”
“Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of th...”
“O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: n...”
