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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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