One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
GASTON BACHELARDThe words of the world want to make sentences.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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