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Poetic Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with…
- 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…
- The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche
- The poetic image exists apart from causality.
- A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants to dream well…
- Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
- It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
- The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness…
- All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must…
- 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…
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- Always be a poet, even in prose. — Charles Baudelaire
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- If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. — Charles Baudelaire
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