Communication Quote 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…

— Gaston Bachelard

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

— Gaston Bachelard

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

— Rachel Kushner

The poetic image exists apart from causality.

— Gaston Bachelard

Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.

— Marianne Moore

Increasingly, over the past ten years, I've come to take the view that a cultural perspective is intrinsic to the future of language teaching…

— David Crystal

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.

— Cecil Day-Lewis

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance…

— Gaston Bachelard

All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness…

— 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 resurrection power of Jesus secured for us a newness of life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it…

— Simone de Beauvoir

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed…

— Louise Wilson

Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the…

— Stewart Brand

The greatest success in life is to feel I’m something for someone; the feeling of falling in love, the newness of love.

— Dennis Wilson