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.
GASTON BACHELARDFor in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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If 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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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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 reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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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 special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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