There is no original truth, only original error. (Gaston Bachelard)
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. (Gaston Bachelard)
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)
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. (Gaston Bachelard)
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. (Gaston Bachelard)
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 pr. (Gaston Bachelard)
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid. (Gaston Bachelard)
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. (Gaston Bachelard)
The words of the world want to make sentences. (Gaston Bachelard)
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. (Gaston Bachelard)
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. (Gaston Bachelard)
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. (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)
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)
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. (Gaston Bachelard)
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