We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and an aspiration toward beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial.

The dream has to be translated into reality.

willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

I told her, "We have both lost ourselves, but sometimes we reveal the most when we are least like ourselves. I am not trying to think any more. I can't think when I am with you. You are like me, wishing for a perfect moment, but nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldly way. Neither one of us can say just the right thing. We are overwhelmed. Let us be overwhelmed. It is so lovely, so lovely. I love you June.

The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.