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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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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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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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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 characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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