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.
GASTON BACHELARDLove is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Man is an imagining being.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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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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