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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Gaston Bachelard

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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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
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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Addition Book Day Expression Life
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.
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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
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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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River
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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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
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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Destiny Future Image Language Oneself Poetry Speech
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
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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Growth Space Tree
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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Childhood Cosmos Happiness Human Man Peace Solitude Son World
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent
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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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
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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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection

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