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We must listen to poets.
Man is an imagining being.
Childhood lasts all through life.
We understand nature by resisting it.
Our house is our corner of the world.
When the image is new, the world is new.
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
The poetic image exists apart from causality.
The words of the world want to make sentences.
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
There is no original truth, only original error.
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection
One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.
Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!
Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.