In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this growth from us. But there is a growth of being in every instance of awareness. Consciousness is in itself an act, the human act.

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

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