When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
GASTON BACHELARDPoetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Our 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.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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