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One Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the…
- To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
- In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.
- Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
- 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…
- One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.
- Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming…
- In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days…
- Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
- 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…
- It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a…
- The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
- By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is…
- 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…
- Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but…
- 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 study…
- One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.
- A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank…
- It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
- 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…
- The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
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