“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

Introduction, sect. 6
La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

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French writer and philosopher 1884–1962

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