Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to 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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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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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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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Our 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.
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