To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.

What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?

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

The words of the world want to make sentences.

There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!

Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.