A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
GASTON BACHELARDLove is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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