A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
GASTON BACHELARDDreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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 metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for 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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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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