Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
GASTON BACHELARDFor in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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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.
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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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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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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 reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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We must listen to poets.
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