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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
— Gaston Bachelard
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
— Gaston Bachelard
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
— Gaston Bachelard
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
— Gaston Bachelard
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
— Gaston Bachelard
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
— Gaston Bachelard
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
— Gaston Bachelard
One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.
— Gaston Bachelard
Man is an imagining being.
— Gaston Bachelard
Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.
— Gaston Bachelard
I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
— Gaston Bachelard
The words of the world want to make sentences.
— Bachelard
In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.
— Gaston Bachelard
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.
— Gaston Bachelard
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
— Gaston Bachelard
What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?
— Gaston Bachelard
The poetic image exists apart from causality.
— Gaston Bachelard
Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!
— Gaston Bachelard
The reflected world is the conquest of calm
— Gaston Bachelard
Childhood lasts all through life.
— Gaston Bachelard
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
— Gaston Bachelard
The lock doesn't exist that could resist absolute violence, and all locks are an invitation to thieves. A lock is a psychological threshold.
— Gaston Bachelard
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
— Gaston Bachelard
We understand nature by resisting it.
— Gaston Bachelard
We cover the Universe with the drawings we have lived.
— Gaston Bachelard
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.
— Gaston Bachelard
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.
— Gaston Bachelard
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event
— Gaston Bachelard
It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.
— Gaston Bachelard
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.
— Gaston Bachelard
A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
— Gaston Bachelard
Our house is our corner of the world.
— Gaston Bachelard
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
— Gaston Bachelard
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.
— Gaston Bachelard
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
— Gaston Bachelard
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
— Gaston Bachelard
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
— Gaston Bachelard
Consciousness rejuvenates everything, giving a quality of beginning to the most everyday actions.
— Gaston Bachelard
Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy ... aerial joy is freedom.
— Gaston Bachelard
Poetry, rather than being a phenomenology of the mind, is a phenomenology of the soul.
— Gaston Bachelard
One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.
— Gaston Bachelard
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
— Gaston Bachelard
To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream
— Gaston Bachelard
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!
— Gaston Bachelard
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
— Gaston Bachelard
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.
— Gaston Bachelard
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
— Gaston Bachelard
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
— Gaston Bachelard
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
— Gaston Bachelard
The poet, in the novelty of his images, is always the origin of language.
— Gaston Bachelard
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.
— Gaston Bachelard
We must listen to poets.
— Gaston Bachelard
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.
— Gaston Bachelard
When the image is new, the world is new.
— Gaston Bachelard
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
— Gaston Bachelard
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
— Gaston Bachelard
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
— Gaston Bachelard
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.
— Gaston Bachelard
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
— Gaston Bachelard
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
— Gaston Bachelard
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
— Gaston Bachelard
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
— Gaston Bachelard
We cannot say what reality is, only what it seems like to us.
— Gaston Bachelard
The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
— Gaston Bachelard
True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
— Gaston Bachelard
Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.
— Gaston Bachelard
There is no original truth, only original error.
— Gaston Bachelard
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
— Gaston Bachelard
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.
— Gaston Bachelard
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche
— Gaston Bachelard
Sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest
— Gaston Bachelard
Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.
— Gaston Bachelard
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