1884 – 1962 • French • Philosopher
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, as we wrongly think, but that the imagination lives in the child.
The words of the world want to make sentences.
Man is an imagining being.
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
