Gaston Bachelard Quotes
Top 79 wise famous quotes and sayings by Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.
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.
What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
The lock doesn't exist that could resist absolute violence, and all locks are an invitation to thieves. A lock is a psychological threshold.
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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.
It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.
In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.
A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
The poetic image [ ... ] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy ... aerial joy is freedom.
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream
Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.
What a dynamic, handsome object is a path! How precise the familiar hill paths remain for our muscular consciousness! Oh, my roads and their cadence.
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech ... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.