Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
GASTON BACHELARDEven a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
GASTON BACHELARDAt all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
GASTON BACHELARDThe great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
GASTON BACHELARDInstead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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 BACHELARDAll 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 BACHELARDThere is no original truth, only original error.
GASTON BACHELARDThe reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
GASTON BACHELARDThe subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
GASTON BACHELARDThe house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
GASTON BACHELARDChildhood lasts all through life.
GASTON BACHELARDDreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
GASTON BACHELARDOne must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
GASTON BACHELARDWe understand nature by resisting it.
GASTON BACHELARDWords are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
GASTON BACHELARDTo feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
GASTON BACHELARD