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.
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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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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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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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