The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
GASTON BACHELARDIf we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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