Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

In contrast to a dream a reverie cannot be recounted. To be communicated, it must be written, written with emotion and taste, being relived all the more strongly because it is being written down. Here, we are touching the realm of written love. It is going out of fashion, but the benefits remain. There are still souls for whom love is the contact of two poetries, the fusion of two reveries.

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

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

The poetic image exists apart from causality.