We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
GASTON BACHELARDThe metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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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 special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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We must listen to poets.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Man is an imagining being.
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