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Poet Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which is not "auto-observant",…
- In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.
- It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
- 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…
- We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the…
- We must listen to poets.
- We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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