One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
GASTON BACHELARDOne must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
GASTON BACHELARDOur house is our corner of the world.
GASTON BACHELARDWe must listen to poets.
GASTON BACHELARDAll the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
GASTON BACHELARDThe reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
GASTON BACHELARDWords are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
GASTON BACHELARDWhat is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
GASTON BACHELARDThe cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
GASTON BACHELARDChildhood 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.
GASTON BACHELARDThe reflected world is the conquest of calm.
GASTON BACHELARDA special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
GASTON BACHELARDHe who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
GASTON BACHELARDThe great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
GASTON BACHELARDMan is an imagining being.
GASTON BACHELARDSo, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
GASTON BACHELARDIdeas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
GASTON BACHELARD