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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

Gaston Bachelard

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
GASTON BACHELARD

Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Adult Children Lost See Thinking World
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
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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Children Event Life World
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 Cosmos Happiness Human Man Peace Solitude Son World
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
We must listen to poets.
GASTON BACHELARD

Listening One Liner Poet
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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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
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
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing

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