"The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams." ― Gaston Bachelard Topic(s): Dreams More From Gaston Bachelard "A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language." "Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language." "If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace." More In Dreams "It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they’ve been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them."― Roy H. Williams "Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact."― Djuna Barnes "Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes."― Jawaharlal Nehru