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.
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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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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 blank page gives us the right to dream.
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