The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
GASTON BACHELARDA special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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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 spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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What 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.
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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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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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We understand nature by resisting it.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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