A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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