Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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 house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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We must listen to poets.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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