We must listen to poets.
GASTON BACHELARDThrough 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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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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