Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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