We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
GASTON BACHELARDA house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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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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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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 spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Man is an imagining being.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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