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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Dreams Fiction Greatness Ourselves Poetry Situation
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Character Known Ourselves Progress
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Dreams Expression Love Poet
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
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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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
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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Childhood Children Cover Imagination Ourselves Possible Solitary
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
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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Addition Book Day Expression Life
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill

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