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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.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood Excess Germ Poem
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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Childhood Fire Flare Forgot Ourselves
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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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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Growth Space Tree
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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual

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