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.
GASTON BACHELARDNobody 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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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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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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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Man is an imagining being.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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