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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

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
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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Happiness Illusion Image Live Nourish Sweet
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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Addition Book Day Expression Life
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
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
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
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Children Event Life World
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
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
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
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
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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Adult Children Lost See Thinking World
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Dreams Expression Love Poet
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching

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