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As Rilke says, “in order to write a single verse, one must see many cities, and men and things; one must get to know animals, and the fight of birds, and the gestures that the little flowers make when they open in the morning.” Each contemplated object, each evocative name we murmur is the point of departure of a dream and of a line, a creative linguistic movement.
— Oct 02, 2025 08:31PM
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Daisy
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Through imagination, we forsake the ordinary course of things. To perceive and to imagine are as antithetic as presence and absence. To imagine is to absent oneself; it is a leap toward a new life.
— Oct 01, 2025 10:11PM
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…Only an iconoclastic philosopher can undertake that heavy task: detaching all the suffixes from beauty, seeking out behind the visible images the hidden one, going to the very root of the image-producing force.
In the heart of matter there grows an obscure vegetation; in the night of matter black flowers blossom. They already have their velvet and the formula of their scent.
— Sep 30, 2025 03:10PM
In the heart of matter there grows an obscure vegetation; in the night of matter black flowers blossom. They already have their velvet and the formula of their scent.
Daisy
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It seems that we could in some way parallel Parain’s very interesting thesis on language by giving to the demonstrating logos a certain depth in which myth and image can subsist. Images also demonstrate, in their own way. And the best proof that their dialectic is objective is that we have just seen an unlikely image impose itself on the conviction of the most diverse writers.
— Jul 28, 2025 10:03PM
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak … It was born in the moments when we accumulated silent things within us. The brook will nonetheless teach you to speak, in spite of sorrows and memories, it will teach you euphoria through euphuism, energy through the poem. It will repeat incessantly some beautiful, round word that rolls over rocks.
— Jul 25, 2025 11:11PM
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Imagination, even conceived as a free movement, does not lead to delirium; it opens the reality of the imaginary, whose true sign is for Bachelard the emergence of the “happy being.” Each new poetic world is not a pure invention, it is a possibility of nature.
— Jul 25, 2025 10:01PM
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“How can an image, at times very unusual, appear to be a concentration of the entire psyche?” Bachelard asks. “How—with no preparation—can this singular, short-lived event constituted by the appearance of an unusual poetic image, react on other minds and in other hearts, despite all the barriers of common sense, all the disciplined schools of thought, content in their immobility?”
— Jul 24, 2025 07:33PM
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During such moments the essentially paradoxical nature of his mind coincided most perfectly with his charm: speaking in earthy accents, he tended toward ethereal thoughts; what might begin with casual references to the weather or polite inquiries concerning one’s health would end with reflections on the necessity to dream well.
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— Jul 24, 2025 03:04PM
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Oct 02, 2025 08:33PM
How often, beside a well, on the old stone covered with wild sorrel and ferns, have I murmured the name of the distant waters, the name of the buried world. How often has the universe suddenly answered. O my things, how we have talked!
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We cannot dream images in depth by listening. I have always thought that the average reader gets a better feeling for poetry by copying it than by reciting it. Pen in hand, one has some chance of offsetting the unjust privilege of sound; one learns to re-experience the greatest of integrations, that of dream and meaning, giving the dream time to find its manifestation or sign and slowly to form its meaning.
( Chiang Hsun has said the same thing :) )
Haha, you’re really obsessed with Bachelard.
I am actually, I sort of feel a kindred spirit in him ( though obviously I am dumb and he is Bachelard!) haha. And it brings me so much joy reading him. I am also reading a Chinese version of The Poetics of Reverie, but that will take a while 😁
