Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we … - Gaston Bachelard

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

7502Far from the immensities of sea and land, merely through memory, we can recapture, by means of meditation, the resonances of this contemplation of grandeur. But is this really memory? Isn’t imagination alone able to enlarge indefinitely the images of immensity? In point of face, daydreaming, from the very first second, is an entirely constituted state. We do not see it start, and yet it always starts the same way, that is, it flees the object nearby and right away it is far off, elsewhere, in the space of elsewhere.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event

Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.