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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.

Gaston Bachelard

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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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 metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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