Author details
All Gaston Bachelard Quotes
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
Gaston Bachelard
59% of people like this quote
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
Gaston Bachelard
57% of people like this quote
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
Gaston Bachelard
56% of people like this quote
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.
Gaston Bachelard
56% of people like this quote
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.
Gaston Bachelard
55% of people like this quote
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
Gaston Bachelard
54% of people like this quote
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Gaston Bachelard
54% of people like this quote
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard
51% of people like this quote
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Gaston Bachelard
51% of people like this quote
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
Gaston Bachelard
50% of people like this quote
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard
50% of people like this quote
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
Gaston Bachelard
47% of people like this quote
Related authors