Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
GASTON BACHELARDWhen the image is new, the world is new.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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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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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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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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