The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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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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