We must listen to poets.
GASTON BACHELARDWe must listen to poets.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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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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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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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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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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