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.
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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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 verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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