The poetic image exists apart from causality.

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

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul of the world, participating in the soul of the world. Thus, from the world to the man, alchemy is a problem of souls.

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.