Our house is our corner of the world.
GASTON BACHELARDThe metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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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 subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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