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Gaston Bachelard - From the Books category:
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. (Gaston Bachelard)
Gaston Bachelard - From the Desire category:
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. (Gaston Bachelard)
Gaston Bachelard - From the Dreams category:
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. (Gaston Bachelard)
Gaston Bachelard - From the Fire category:
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. (Gaston Bachelard)
Gaston Bachelard - From the Ideas category:
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. (Gaston Bachelard)
Gaston Bachelard - From the Imagination category:
Man is an imagining being. (Gaston Bachelard)
Gaston Bachelard - From the Language category:
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. (Gaston Bachelard)
Gaston Bachelard - From the Memory category:
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. (Gaston Bachelard)
Gaston Bachelard - From the Poetry category:
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. (Gaston Bachelard)
Gaston Bachelard - From the Progress category:
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. (Gaston Bachelard)
Gaston Bachelard - From the Sleep category:
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. (Gaston Bachelard)
Gaston Bachelard - From the Studio category:
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. (Gaston Bachelard)
Gaston Bachelard - From the Tradition category:
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. (Gaston Bachelard)
Gaston Bachelard - From the Truth category:
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth. (Gaston Bachelard)
Gaston Bachelard - From the Words category:
The words of the world want to make sentences. (Gaston Bachelard)
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