“We say God and the imagination are one . . .How high that highest candle lights the dark.”

“Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.”

“God and the imagination are one.”

“The exceeding brightness of this early sunMakes me conceive how dark I have become.”

“The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are the phenomena of perception... If we were all alike: if we were millions of people saying do, re, mi, in unison, One poet would be enough... But we are not alone, and everything needs expounding all the time because, as people live and die, each one perceiving life and death for himself, and mostly by and in himself, there develops a curiosity about the perceptions of others. This is what makes it possible to go on saying new things about old things.”

“After the leaves have fallen, we returnTo a plain sense of things. It is as ifWe had come to an end of the imagination,Inanimate in an inert savoir.”

“Out of this same light, out of the central mind,We make a dwelling in the evening air,In which being there together is enough.”