The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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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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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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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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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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