To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
GASTON BACHELARDWords are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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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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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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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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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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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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