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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

Gaston Bachelard

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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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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
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
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Accurate Learning Properly Teaching
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
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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Childhood Children Cover Imagination Ourselves Possible Solitary
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Dreams Life Live Load Ourselves Passion Remain Solitude Time
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
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
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
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World

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