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.
GASTON BACHELARDA 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Nobody 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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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