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Gaston Bachelard quotes

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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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

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