Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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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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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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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 subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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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.
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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 cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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 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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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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