The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
GASTON BACHELARDWe must listen to poets.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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