Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
GASTON BACHELARDAn excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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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 understand nature by resisting it.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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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.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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