Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
GASTON BACHELARDHe who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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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 dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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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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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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