An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
GASTON BACHELARDThe spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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