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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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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We must listen to poets.
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Man is an imagining being.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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