A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
GASTON BACHELARDLove is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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 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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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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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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We must listen to poets.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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All 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.
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For 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?
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