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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

Gaston Bachelard

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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
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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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World
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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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Beautiful Born Existence Kind Language Special
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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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
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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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term

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