“The poet keeps the image from becoming motionless.”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.comTagged: Poetry, Word & Image, Keep The Truth Flowing
“Her secret was Listening to flowers Wear out their color.”— Noël Bureau, fr.wikipedia.orgTagged: Flowers, Secrets
“Our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.comTagged: Nostalgia, Emotion, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“We are never real historians, but always near poets.”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.comTagged: The Fiction of History, History, Poetics of Memory, Narrative Fallacy
“At times when we believe we are studying something, we are only being receptive to a kind of daydreaming.”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.comTagged: Daydreaming, studying, Learning, How We Learn
“The image offered us by reading the poem now becomes really our own. It takes root in us. It has been given us by another, but we begin to have the impression that we could have created it, that we should have created it. It becomes a new being in our language, expressing us by making us what it exp…”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.comTagged: Poetry, Expression Creates Us
“Images touch us at the deepest place of existence and remake the world again and again.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Photography, Imagination, Make It New
“All we communicate to others is an orientation towards what is secret without ever being able to tell the secret objectively.”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.comTagged: The Secret of Secrecy, How We Talk, Human Communication
“When the image is new, the world is new.”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.comTagged: New Drug, Photography, Seeing Seeing, Make It New, Aesthetics
“Forces are manifested in poems that do not pass through the circuits of knowledge.”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.comTagged: Beyond Logic, Forms of Communication, Poetry, Epistemology
“All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Writing, Best Reading Quotes