Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
GASTON BACHELARDRilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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 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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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