"I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable..." — Jacques Maritain

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.