I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured … - Gaston Bachelard

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Gaston Bachelard

I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting.

Dream, Giving, Solitude, Double, Toward, Dreamer

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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.

Dreamed, Finished, Love, Love Is, Poetically

The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness follows. This reverie is written, or, at least, promises to be written. It is already facing the great universe of the blank page. Then images begin to compose and fall into place.

Compose, Expanding, Fall, Poetry, Promises, Track

The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides again, having permitted himself the illusion of unity for barely an instant. He divides and then reunites.

Barely, Becoming, Profound, Reality, Taken, Unity

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.

Adults, Animate, Childhood, Life, Returns

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.

Blank, Dream, Giving, Page, Twig, Writing