The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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 verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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We must listen to poets.
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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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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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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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