Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. - Gaston Bachelard

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.

The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.