Childhood lasts all through life.
GASTON BACHELARDAn excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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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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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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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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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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We must listen to poets.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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