Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
GASTON BACHELARDThe cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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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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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 spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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