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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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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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