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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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Man is an imagining being.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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