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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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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid. – Gaston Bachelard

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