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It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.