The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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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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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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