Quotes by Gaston Bachelard

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

#Books

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which...

#Mind, #Soul

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image,...

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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from...

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Man is an imagining being.

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

#Creation

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say:...

#Houses

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect...

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that...

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

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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well,...

#Gaston Bachelard