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.
GASTON BACHELARDThe blank page gives us the right to dream.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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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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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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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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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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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 reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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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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