We must listen to poets.
GASTON BACHELARDThe reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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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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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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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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