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.
GASTON BACHELARDChildhood 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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 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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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