The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
GASTON BACHELARDThe great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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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 night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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