So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.

It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to study imagination objectively since one really receives the image only if he admires it. Already in comparing one image to another, one runs the risk of losing participation in its individuality.

Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.