The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
GASTON BACHELARDOur 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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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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