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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.

Gaston Bachelard

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
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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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
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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Gift Mindset Soul Time
Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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Childhood Children Cover Imagination Ourselves Possible Solitary
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
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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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Children Event Life World
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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Growth Space Tree

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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