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 BACHELARDThe great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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 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.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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