The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
GASTON BACHELARDIt is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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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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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Man is an imagining being.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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