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.
GASTON BACHELARDIt is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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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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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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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 reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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We must listen to poets.
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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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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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Man is an imagining being.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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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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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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