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.
GASTON BACHELARDHe who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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We must listen to poets.
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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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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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