Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
GASTON BACHELARD
GASTON BACHELARD
Gaston Bachelard on perception
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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.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard 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.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard 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.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard There is no original truth, only original error.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Childhood lasts all through life.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard We must listen to poets.
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