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.
GASTON BACHELARDThe words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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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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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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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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