Gaston Bachelard

(9 votes)   If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

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(9 votes)   The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

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(9 votes)   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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(9 votes)   Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

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(8 votes)   Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

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(7 votes)   Man is an imagining being.

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(40 votes)   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.

Gaston Bachelard
1884-1962, French Scientist, Philosopher, Literary Theorist

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(36 votes)   I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

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1884-1962, French Scientist, Philosopher, Literary Theorist

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(33 votes)   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.

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(27 votes)   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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1884-1962, French Scientist, Philosopher, Literary Theorist

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(25 votes)   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.

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1884-1962, French Scientist, Philosopher, Literary Theorist

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(15 votes)   One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

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(13 votes)   A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

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(12 votes)   Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

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(9 votes)   Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

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