When a relaxed spirit meditates and dreams, immensity seems to expect images of immensity. The mind sees and continues to see objects, while the spirit finds the nest of immensity in an object. We shall have various proofs of this if we follow the daydreams that the single word vast inspired in Baudelaire. Indeed, “vast” is one of the most Baudelairian of words, the word that marks most naturally, for this poet, infinity of intimate space.
