الذي ينصت إلى خرير الساقية لا يمكنه أن يفهم الذي يصغي إلى نشيد اللهب - Gaston Bachelard

All important words, all the words marked for grandeur by a poet, are keys to the universe, to the dual universe of the Cosmos and the depths of the human spirit.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech.... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

In this admiration, which goes beyond the passivity of contemplative attitudes, the joy of reading appears to be the reflection of the joy of writing, as though the reader were the writer's ghost.