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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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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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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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