Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
GASTON BACHELARDPoetry 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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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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We must listen to poets.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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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 spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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Man is an imagining being.
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