The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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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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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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.
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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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