Awakening Quote by Gaston Bachelard

“True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.” quote by Gaston Bachelard — Download Open image

“True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.”

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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?

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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…

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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 since childhood. These memories which live by the image and in virtue of the image become, at certain times of our lives and particularly during the quiet age, the origin and matter of a complex…

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In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept…

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It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

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In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.

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There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished…

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

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The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

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In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide…

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Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night…

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The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.

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Motivation is awakening own mind and Inspiration is arising spirit in others to find their own with their heart and soul in all.

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Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.

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“The Illusion - The source of suffering can be linked back to a condition of the mind that creates the illusion of separation--the state in which we see ourselves as disconnected and separate from the world and our experiences.”

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