To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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 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 a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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We must listen to poets.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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