The blank page gives us the right to dream.
GASTON BACHELARDTo verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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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 reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Nobody 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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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