"There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes."
Bachelard, G. Poetics of Reverie, pp 99
"By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams."
Bachelard, G. Poetics of Reverie, pp 49
"The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth."
Bachelard, G. Poetics of Reverie, pp 59
"It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which is not "auto-observant", where we ourselves no longer divide ourselves into observer and observed. Then the dreamer is completely dissolved in his reverie. His reverie is his silent life. It is that silent peace which the poet wants to convey to us."
Bachelard, G. Poetics of Reverie, pp 45
"In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this growth from us. But there is a growth of being in every instance of awareness. Consciousness is in itself an act, the human act."
Bachelard, G. Poetics of Reverie, pp 5
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