We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images.… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, as we wrongly think, but that the imagination lives in… — 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
The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it. — 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
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity. — 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 Image
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves? — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
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 Image
