The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
GASTON BACHELARDThe only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
GASTON BACHELARDThe reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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.
GASTON BACHELARDWe are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
GASTON BACHELARDA clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
GASTON BACHELARDThere 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 BACHELARDOne must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
GASTON BACHELARDWe comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
GASTON BACHELARDOur house is our corner of the world.
GASTON BACHELARDThe metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
GASTON BACHELARDWords are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
GASTON BACHELARDAny comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
GASTON BACHELARDThe blank page gives us the right to dream.
GASTON BACHELARDThe words of the world want to make sentences.
GASTON BACHELARDThrough imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
GASTON BACHELARDWe must listen to poets.
GASTON BACHELARD