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 BACHELARDThe night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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We must listen to poets.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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