Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.

What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?

To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream.

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.

Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.