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.
GASTON BACHELARDOur house is our corner of the world.
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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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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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 spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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