Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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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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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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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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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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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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Man is an imagining being.
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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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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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Through 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.
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