Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
GASTON BACHELARDWhat is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Man is an imagining being.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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