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Quote by Gaston Bachelard
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations

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

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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. – Gaston Bachelard

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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. – Gaston Bachelard

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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things. – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. Ecclesiasticus 34:2 – Bible

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Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. – John Gardner

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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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