The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
Gaston Bachelard
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I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it. -
I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens. -
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More quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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- Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
- The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.