We must listen to poets.
GASTON BACHELARDThe spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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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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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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