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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech.... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

— Gaston Bachelard La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.

Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

The words of the world want to make sentences.

La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

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