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Letter "G" » Gaston Bachelard Quotes
«So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.»
«Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.»
Author: Gaston Bachelard
(Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Mind,
Reverie,
Soul
| Keywords:
plenitude, reverie, reveries, vacuum
«One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.»
«Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.»
«Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.»
«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.»
Author: Gaston Bachelard
(Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
abandons, accents, Bad Company, crannies, cranny, dreamer, invert, inverted, meanings, move around, nook, nooks, nooks and crannies, overload, overloaded, prevents, stressed, syllables, wander
«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.»
Author: Gaston Bachelard
(Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
inn, phantoms, refreshes, repose, sweep, The Shadows
«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.»
«To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.»
«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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