Man is an imagining being.
GASTON BACHELARDMan is an imagining being.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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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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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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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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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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