“Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.” ChildrenWholeChildhoodPossibilityRemainsSolitaryRecoveringReverieReimagining Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It must therefore satisfy both pride and reason, two irreconcilable terms.” PeopleMayTwoSometimesReasonDoneHomeDreamPastHouseSoundTermChildhoodPrideHealthyComfortableLateBuiltOwnershipDesirableConvenientLightersEmbodimentIndomitableDream HouseChildhood Home Author:Gaston Bachelard
“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.” WorldLifeHelpingLastsChildhoodPoetReturnAdultsPermanentBroadsSections Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.” KnowsMenWorldFeelsHumansChildrenPeaceChildhoodSonSolitudeRelaxCosmosUnhappinessAche Author:Gaston Bachelard
“How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes.” FeelsDreamChildhoodCommunicationReturnSolitudeOur ChildrenAccidentsDreamerTranquilSlopesReverie Author:Gaston Bachelard
“If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory since childhood. These memories which live by the image and in virtue of the image become, at certain times of our lives and particularly during the quiet age, the origin and matter of a complex reverie: the memory dreams, and reverie remembers.” IfsMatterDreamAgeRememberCertainDifficultMemoriesVirtueOur LivesChildhoodQuietComplexesBelovedRealmsDistinctionLive ByChildhood MemoriesReverie Author:Gaston Bachelard
“So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.” HealingFireChildhoodForgottenInner ChildFlareFlare Up Author:Gaston Bachelard
