Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.Gaston Bachelard
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
Gaston Bachelard
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Gaston Bachelard
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