So like a forgotten fire a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Gaston Bachelard
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  1. The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

  2. To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

  3. We must listen to poets.

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