Best Gaston Bachelard Quotes
- Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and… All
- The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could… Acknowledge
- Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom. Aerial
- The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche Image
- Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital… Begins
- Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity. Bears
- Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us,… Adult
- The poetic image exists apart from causality. Apart
- True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams. Awakening
- Our house is our corner of the world. Corner
- We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection Comfort
- The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. Dream
- A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space. Been
- To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience. Enriching
- One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in. Build
- Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves,… Angle
- There is no original truth, only original error. Error
- Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists. Expense
- Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the… Ache
- The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe… Distant
- Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries. Distant
- A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life. Addition
- The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality. Birth
- A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath. Breath
- Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for itself. Resting in… All
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