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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Gaston Bachelard

The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
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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Blank Dreams Empty Ourselves Page Right Word
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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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
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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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
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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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Growth Space Tree
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Beautiful Born Existence Kind Language Special

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