Day dreaming Quote by Gaston Bachelard

““What a dynamic, handsome object is a path! How precise the familiar hill paths remain for our muscular consciousness! "Oh, my roads and their cadence.””

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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…

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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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Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of…

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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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