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.
GASTON BACHELARDThe house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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We must listen to poets.
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