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Quote by Gaston Bachelard
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the

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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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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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. – Niels Bohr

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Always be a poet, even in prose. – Charles Baudelaire, “My Heart Laid Bare,” Intimate Journals, 1864

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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. – Salvatore Quasimodo

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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance. – A. R. Ammons

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