We understand nature by resisting it.
GASTON BACHELARDInstead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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Man is an imagining being.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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We must listen to poets.
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