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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

Gaston Bachelard

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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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 cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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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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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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