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.
GASTON BACHELARDIdeas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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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.
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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