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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

The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
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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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
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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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
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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Destiny Future Image Language Oneself Poetry Speech
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
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
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
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
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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Childhood Cosmos Happiness Human Man Peace Solitude Son World
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Dreams Fiction Greatness Ourselves Poetry Situation
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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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
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
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

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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