Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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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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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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