Inspirational Quote by Gaston Bachelard Download Open image “One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.” — Gaston Bachelard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Poetry Thinking Thinking of others
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
“There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want to say… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even making two… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves? — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
