To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
GASTON BACHELARDTo feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
GASTON BACHELARDDreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
GASTON BACHELARDTo verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
GASTON BACHELARDThe metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
GASTON BACHELARDWe must listen to poets.
GASTON BACHELARDWhat is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
GASTON BACHELARDIf I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
GASTON BACHELARDAt all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
GASTON BACHELARDAny comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
GASTON BACHELARDOur house is our corner of the world.
GASTON BACHELARDEmpirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
GASTON BACHELARDReverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
GASTON BACHELARDAn excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
GASTON BACHELARDEvery corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
GASTON BACHELARDWhen 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 BACHELARDThe spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
GASTON BACHELARD