Gaston Bachelard Quotes & Gaston Bachelard Sayings

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. Gaston Bachelard Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. Gaston Bachelard 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 Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. Gaston Bachelard So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. Gaston Bachelard Popular Quotes The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. Gaston Bachelard The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. Gaston Bachelard Popular Quotes 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