Childhood lasts all through life.
GASTON BACHELARDSo, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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We must listen to poets.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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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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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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