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 BACHELARDNobody 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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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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