True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
Gaston BachelardHappy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!
Gaston BachelardA universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants to dream well to begin by being happy. Then reverie plays out its veritable destiny; it becomes poetic reverie and by it, in it, everything becomes beautiful. If the dreamer had "the gift" he would turn his reverie into a work. And this work would be grandiose since the dreamed world is automatically grandiose.
Gaston Bachelard