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.
GASTON BACHELARDAll 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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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.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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