The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
GASTON BACHELARDSo, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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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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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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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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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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 words of the world want to make sentences.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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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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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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