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.
GASTON BACHELARDWe must listen to poets.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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We must listen to poets.
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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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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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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 characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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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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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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