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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreamer Dreams Night
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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 understand nature by resisting it.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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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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