We must listen to poets.
GASTON BACHELARDThrough imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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