Childhood lasts all through life.
GASTON BACHELARDSo, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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What 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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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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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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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