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From Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
- There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from…
- The poetic image exists apart from causality.
- Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of the…
- Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of…
- Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it…
- Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul of the world,…
- This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal…
- In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this…
- Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one…
- In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is…
- Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But…
- The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which…
- Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade...I live in great density...Shelter lures…
- One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a…
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