The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
GASTON BACHELARDReverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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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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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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.
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