Gaston Bachelard on language
“A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.”
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The blank page gives us the right to dream.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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