"Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato enough to adapt to the lyrical stirrings of the soul, the undulations of dreams, and sudden leaps of consciousness."

"Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end."

"There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast."

"Certes, je sortirai quant a' moi satisfait D'un monde o u' l'action n'est pas la soeur du re" ve. Indeed, for my part, I shall be happy to leave A world where action is not sister to the dream."

"Everything, alas, is an abyss, — actions, desires, dreams, words!"

"Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams."

"The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things."