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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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