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

All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.

The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.

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

Man is an imagining being.

At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.