Gaston Bachelard Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• 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

  Imagination, Poetry, Soul

• By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is dreaming, to "do phenomenology."

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Relax, Phenomenology

• In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this growth from us. But there is a growth of being in every instance of awareness. Consciousness is in itself an act, the human act.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Light, Views, Psychics

• The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness follows. This reverie is written, or, at least, promises to be written. It is already facing the great universe of the blank page. Then images begin to compose and fall into place.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Fall, Track, Poetry

• All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Fall, Poetry, Records

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