One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
GASTON BACHELARDWe must listen to poets.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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To 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.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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