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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

Gaston Bachelard

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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
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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Distance Edge Imagination Live Past Soul Time Universe
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Desire Poet Reading Temptations Writing
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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Childhood Cosmos Happiness Human Man Peace Solitude Son World
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
Our house is our corner of the world.
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Home Ourselves Perspective World
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent
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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Dedication Dream Green Imagination Meadow River
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
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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Corrective Hope Ideas Invention Repeat

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