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.
GASTON BACHELARDThe 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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We must listen to poets.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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