The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
GASTON BACHELARDAn excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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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.
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