Of Water and Dreams
An examination of the imagination leads us to this paradox: in the imagination of universalized vision, water plays an unexpected role. The true eye of the earth is water. In our eyes it is water that dreams. Are our eyes not “that unexplored pool of liquid light which God put in the depths of our being”? In nature it is once again water that sees and water that dreams: ”The lake has created the garden. Everything is composed around this water which thinks”. As soon as one surrenders himself entirely to the sway of the imagination with all the united powers of dream and contemplation, he understands the depth of Paul Claudel’s thought: ”Thus, water is the gaze of the earth, its instrument for looking at time…”
- Gaston Bachelard
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