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.

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

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

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

We understand nature by resisting it.