A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
GASTON BACHELARDA clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
GASTON BACHELARDDaydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
GASTON BACHELARDThe blank page gives us the right to dream.
GASTON BACHELARDWhat is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
GASTON BACHELARDThe metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
GASTON BACHELARDThe great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
GASTON BACHELARDWe must listen to poets.
GASTON BACHELARDThe house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
GASTON BACHELARDWhen the image is new, the world is new.
GASTON BACHELARDAny comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
GASTON BACHELARDOur 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.
GASTON BACHELARDPoetry 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.
GASTON BACHELARDTo 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.
GASTON BACHELARDTo feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
GASTON BACHELARDEven a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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