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.
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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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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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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