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 BACHELARDEmpirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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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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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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We must listen to poets.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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