The words of the world want to make sentences.
Category Archive: Gaston Bachelard
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
Man is an imagining being.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.