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.
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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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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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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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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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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