True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

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

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.

The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.

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