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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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Evidence Intimate Possible Thirst True Water
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
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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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
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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Blank Dreams Empty Ourselves Page Right Word
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Breathe Conscience Empty Man Myself
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Conscious Listening Oneself Truth
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space

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