Writing Quotes by Gaston Bachelard

9 Writing quotes by Gaston Bachelard

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Bachelard’s nine quotes on writing delve into the imagination’s role in shaping thought. The brief excerpts blend philosophy with poetic wonder, providing a compact yet profound look at how ideas take form on the page.

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In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.

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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which…

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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for…

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Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of…

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I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page.…

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Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we…

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In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past,…

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In contrast to a dream a reverie cannot be recounted. To be communicated, it must be written, written with emotion and taste,…

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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.

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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?

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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…

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If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in…

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In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept…

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It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

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In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.

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Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of…

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There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished…

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

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The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

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In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide…

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