To Daniel MacGhie Cory
Rome. March 18, 1932
A young Spaniard who is at the Spanish Academy here came to lunch yesterday. He is a surréaliste and thinks the reaction of the mind, the splash, everything, and the material impression nothing, so that the ideal would be blank pages for poetry and paintings admired in the dark.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Four, 1928–1932. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
Location of manuscript: Butler Library, Columbia University, New York NY