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

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

The blank page gives us the right to dream.

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.