Childhood lasts all through life.
GASTON BACHELARDNobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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 great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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