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.
GASTON BACHELARDThe reflected world is the conquest of calm.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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