One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
GASTON BACHELARDThe reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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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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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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We must listen to poets.
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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.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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