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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Gaston Bachelard

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Alive Beautiful Feeling Reading
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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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
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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Born Fact Hesitate Lying Ourselves Silence Source Suffering Talk
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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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
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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Gift Mindset Soul Time
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
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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Home Imagination Ourselves Room Space Symbol
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Adult Children Lost See Thinking World
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance

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