At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“In the theater of the past that is constituted by memory, the stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles .… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves? — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share
The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share
If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share
In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share
In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share
Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share
There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share
In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share
Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share
Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share
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