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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Gaston Bachelard

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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
Man is an imagining being.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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Build Home Live Oneself
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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