Gaston Bachelard Quotes - Page 2

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• The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.

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  Love, Two, Soul

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• Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

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  Integrity, Men, Desire

  "The Psychoanalysis of Fire". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1938.

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• When the image is new, the world is new.

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  Design, World

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• He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.

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  Teach, Cease

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• All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.

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  Would Be, Response, Scientific Knowledge

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• The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.

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  World

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• 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.

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  Dream, Children, Sea

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• The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

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  Morning, Sleep, Night

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

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• 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.

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  Dream, Writing, Giving

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

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• 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.

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  Dream, Home, Pride

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

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• 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.

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  Life, Childhood, Adults

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

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• Man is an imagining being.

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  Men

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

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• The reflected world is the conquest of calm.

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  Unity, World, Calm

  "Water and Dreams". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1942.

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• A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

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  Beauty, Communication, Writing

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• The words of the world want to make sentences.

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  Writing, World, Want

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

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• We must listen to poets.

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  Poet

  Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, p.77, Penguin

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• To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Reading, Mean

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

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  Water, Proof, Existence

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• The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and flight of being, evening's crystallization and wings that open to the light.

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  Dream, Wings, Two

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• There is no original truth, only original error.

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  Truth, Mistake, Errors

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

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  Life, Wells, Ifs

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.

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  Love, Time, Memories

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.

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  Children, Philosophical, Thinking

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• The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

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  Truth, Listening, Murmuring

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

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• 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.

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  Fall, Track, Poetry

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