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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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