Gaston Bachelard Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

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

  Gaston Bachelard

  Healing, Fire, Flare Up

• Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Life, Childhood, Adults

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

• Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It must therefore satisfy both pride and reason, two irreconcilable terms.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Home, Pride

  "La Poétique de l'Espace (The Poetics of Space)". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1964.

• Childhood lasts all through life.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Childhood, Lasts

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

• Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Peace, Children, Son

• How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Communication, Childhood

• If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory since childhood. These memories which live by the image and in virtue of the image become, at certain times of our lives and particularly during the quiet age, the origin and matter of a complex reverie: the memory dreams, and reverie remembers.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Memories, Childhood

• Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Children, Childhood, Reimagining

• An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Childhood, Excess, Germs

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