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 BACHELARDWe are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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