To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
GASTON BACHELARDWhen the image is new, the world is new.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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