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Dream Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the…
- The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and flight of being,…
- Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital…
- True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
- The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
- 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…
- 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…
- How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is…
- Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming…
- Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of the…
- In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days…
- It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which is not "auto-observant",…
- The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
- In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.
- If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory…
- Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear…
- 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.
- A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants to dream well…
- A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in…
- In contrast to a dream a reverie cannot be recounted. To be communicated, it must be written, written with emotion and taste, being relived all…
- By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is…
- The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to study…
- Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the…
- I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought…
- 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…
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- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects… — Gaston Bachelard