The words of the world want to make sentences.
GASTON BACHELARDEven a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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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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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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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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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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We must listen to poets.
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