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 BACHELARDThe metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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For 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?
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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