I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and pr
Source: The Poetics of Reverie, Introduction, sct. 6, 1960; tr. 1969.
-- Gaston Bachelard, (Jun 27 1884-1962), French philosopher; He worte The Pyschoanalysis of Fire, (La psychanalyse du feu).