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.
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
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