For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
GASTON BACHELARDWe are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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