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.
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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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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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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We must listen to poets.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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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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 reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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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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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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