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.
GASTON BACHELARDThrough 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.
GASTON BACHELARDThe great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
GASTON BACHELARDOne must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
GASTON BACHELARDThe spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
GASTON BACHELARDThe 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.
GASTON BACHELARDA word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
GASTON BACHELARDThe night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
GASTON BACHELARDChildhood lasts all through life.
GASTON BACHELARDWords are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
GASTON BACHELARDOur whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
GASTON BACHELARDMan is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
GASTON BACHELARDA special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
GASTON BACHELARDTo live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
GASTON BACHELARDA house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
GASTON BACHELARDHe who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
GASTON BACHELARDIf I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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