The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

There is no original truth, only original error.

The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.

A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.

One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.