Quotes by : Gaston Bachelard

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in....

There is no original truth, only original error.

We must listen to poets.

So like a forgotten fire a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. This childhood in the mists and glimmers,....

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming,....

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night....

Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and....

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event

Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed....