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.
GASTON BACHELARDEvery 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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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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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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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We must listen to poets.
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