The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to study imagination objectively since one really receives the image only if he admires it. Already in comparing one image to another, one runs the risk of losing participation in its individuality.

Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks to you with a monotonous authority which even its author would not have. You are fairly obliged to read what is written.

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

The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

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

When the image is new, the world is new.

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.