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.
GASTON BACHELARDRilke 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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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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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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We must listen to poets.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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