Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
GASTON BACHELARDThe 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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 spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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