Consciousness Quote by Gaston Bachelard

The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding…

— Gaston Bachelard

All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of…

— Gaston Bachelard

In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing…

— Gaston Bachelard

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

— Gaston Bachelard

The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and…

— David Abram

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

— Ernst Haas

It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which is not…

— Gaston Bachelard

“Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves”

— Lewis Carroll

When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed…

— Cesare Pavese

“In Poems of Love and Light: The Light of The Sun…Our Breath as One, the tenor seems to have changed slightly, as the progression…

— Frank L. DeSilva

When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.

— Paramahansa Yogananda