The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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