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Quotes from La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) — Gaston Bachelard

1884–1962 France

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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

The words of the world want to make sentences.

La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech.... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

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.

La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

Man is an imagining being.

La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

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