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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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Blank Dreams Empty Ourselves Page Right Word
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Beautiful Book Fact Greatness Human Reading Service Togetherness
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
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.
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Growth Space Tree
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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Addition Book Day Expression Life
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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Gift Mindset Soul Time
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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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet

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