Childhood lasts all through life.
GASTON BACHELARDPoetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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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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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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