An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
GASTON BACHELARD
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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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 spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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