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.
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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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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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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 house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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