Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

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

At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.

For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?

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.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which is not "auto-observant", where we ourselves no longer divide ourselves into observer and observed. Then the dreamer is completely dissolved in his reverie. His reverie is his silent life. It is that silent peace which the poet wants to convey to us.