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Dreams Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the…
More Dreams Quotes
- Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- Learn from your dreams what you lack. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already… — Richard Bach
- That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming. — Joseph Barbera
- A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me. — David Bailey
- So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby. — Rick Baker
- Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna… — Russell Baker
- The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its… — J. G. Ballard
- He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. — Douglas Adams
- What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have… — Drew Barrymore