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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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Happiness Illusion Image Live Nourish Sweet
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
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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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
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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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
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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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
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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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State

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