Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

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

Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.

Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of the anima. When the reverie is truly profound, the being who comes to dream within us is our anima. For a philosopher who takes his inspiration from phenomenology, a reverie on reverie is very exactly a phenomenology of the anima, and it is by coordinating reveries on reverie that he hopes to constitute a "Poetics of reverie". In other words, the poetics of reverie is a poetics of the anima.

The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.

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

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