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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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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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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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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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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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