We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection

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

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

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

It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness follows. This reverie is written, or, at least, promises to be written. It is already facing the great universe of the blank page. Then images begin to compose and fall into place.