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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.

Gaston Bachelard

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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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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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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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