We must listen to poets.
GASTON BACHELARDThe cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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