The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
GASTON BACHELARDMan is an imagining being.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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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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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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We must listen to poets.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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