We must listen to poets.
GASTON BACHELARDAll 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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Man is an imagining being.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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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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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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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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