Gaston Bachelard
"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."
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
"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
"Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls."
Gaston Bachelard
"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books."
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
"The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth."
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
"A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space."
Gaston Bachelard
"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."
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
"Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity."
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
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