A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
GASTON BACHELARDHe who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Man is an imagining being.
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