Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard: To feel most...

Gaston Bachelard: To feel most...

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of...

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Gaston Bachelard: Literary imagination is...

Gaston Bachelard: Literary imagination is...

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

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Gaston Bachelard: Poetry is one...

Gaston Bachelard: Poetry is one...

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech. . . . One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to...

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Gaston Bachelard: Ideas are refined...

Gaston Bachelard: Ideas are refined...

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of...

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Gaston Bachelard: Childhood lasts all...

Gaston Bachelard: Childhood lasts all...

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life. . . . Poets will help us to...

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Gaston Bachelard: The characteristic of...

Gaston Bachelard: The characteristic of...

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

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Gaston Bachelard: I am a...

Gaston Bachelard: I am a...

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...

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Gaston Bachelard: Ideas are invented...

Gaston Bachelard: Ideas are invented...

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to...

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Gaston Bachelard: A special kind...

Gaston Bachelard: A special kind...

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

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Gaston Bachelard: One must always...

Gaston Bachelard: One must always...

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with...

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Gaston Bachelard: So, like a...

Gaston Bachelard: So, like a...

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Source:...

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Gaston Bachelard: Reverie is not...

Gaston Bachelard: Reverie is not...

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the...

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Gaston Bachelard: Man is a...

Gaston Bachelard: Man is a...

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Source: The Psychoanalysis of...

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Gaston Bachelard: The words of...

Gaston Bachelard: The words of...

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Source: The Poetics of Reverie, ch....

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Gaston Bachelard: To live life...

Gaston Bachelard: To live life...

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no...

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Gaston Bachelard: Even a minor...

Gaston Bachelard: Even a minor...

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world...

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Gaston Bachelard: Man is an...

Gaston Bachelard: Man is an...

Man is an imagining being.

Source: The Poetics of Reverie, ch. 2, sct. 10 (1960;...

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Gaston Bachelard: A word is...

Gaston Bachelard: A word is...

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The...

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Gaston Bachelard: There is no...

Gaston Bachelard: There is no...

There is no original truth, only original error.

Source: Fragments of a Poetics of...

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Gaston Bachelard: The great function...

Gaston Bachelard: The great function...

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

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