When the image is new, the world is new.
GASTON BACHELARDThe reflected world is the conquest of calm.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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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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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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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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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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