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

Gaston Bachelard

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
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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Calm Dreams Nightmare People
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World
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
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
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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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
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
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
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
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
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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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection

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