“True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.”

— Gaston Bachelard , book L'Eau et les Rêves

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L'eau et les rêves (Water and Dreams) 1942

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French writer and philosopher 1884–1962

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