There is no original truth, only original error.

The blank page gives us the right to dream.

The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.

Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.

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

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

Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But for all that, would he experience the phenomena of inspiration? His human documentation gathered from inspired poets could hardly be related, except from the exterior, in an ideal of objective observations. Comparison of inspired poets would soon make us lose sight of inspiration.