Our house is our corner of the world.
GASTON BACHELARDChildhood 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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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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.
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We must listen to poets.
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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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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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