Our house is our corner of the world.
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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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 spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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