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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I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and pr.Gaston Bachelard
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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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 page gives the right to dream.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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