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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.

Gaston Bachelard

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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Allow Dreams Home Peace Protection
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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