Aesthetic Quote by Gaston Bachelard

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

— Elliot Perlman

“How ironic, it seemed to me, yet, perhaps, how symbolic, that in our age of rapid mass production and the easy proliferation of consumer…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“In fact, neither reader nor writer nor lover achieves such consumation. The words we read and the words we write never say exactly what…

— Anne Carson

“Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death-- fascinating, cruel,…

— Cara Swann

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

— Edna Ferber

When you decide 'to be a writer,' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like. When you begin, you write…

— Philip Roth

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating,…

— Edna Ferber

“These are the moments which possess the writer, not the lover, and which live on perpetually. One can return to them time and time…

— Lawrence Durrell

The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that…

— Lev Grossman

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 image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to…

— Gaston Bachelard

Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.

— Gaston Bachelard