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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

Gaston Bachelard

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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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We must listen to poets.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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