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

The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.

The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.

Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

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

In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.