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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
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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Adult Animation Childhood Finding Life Permanent Return
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
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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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Better Final Live Oneself State
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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Destiny Future Image Language Oneself Poetry Speech
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
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
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
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Dreams Fiction Greatness Ourselves Poetry Situation
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Beautiful Born Existence Kind Language Special

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