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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.

Gaston Bachelard

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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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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 blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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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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