When the image is new, the world is new.
GASTON BACHELARDWe are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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