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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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We must listen to poets.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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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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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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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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