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Quotes from Fragments of a Poetics of Fire — Gaston Bachelard

1884–1962 France

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

Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

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.

Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

There is no original truth, only original error.

Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

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.

Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.

Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books

Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gaston Bachelard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.