Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.

Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.

Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.

In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.

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.

This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal creation (as opposed to a didactic statement) from one language to another, he is confronted with two equally unsatisfactory choices. He may, according to his talents, elaborate a similar, but never identical creation, or he may describe that creation as completely as possible in his own language.