Gaston Bachelard Quotes
Most popular Gaston Bachelard Quotes
Man is an imagining being.
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig.
In poetry, wonder is coupled with the joy of speech.
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
The true voyage of the imagination is the voyage to the land, to the very domain of the imaginary.
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
