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

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

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.

Man is an imagining being.

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.

By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.