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

Gaston Bachelard

Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
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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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
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
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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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
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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Children Event Life World
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
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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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness
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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Growth Space Tree
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
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself

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