All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.

The vital spirit. L'élan vital