“If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.” IfsShouldHomeDreamHouseNamesPeaceProtectBenefitsChiefsDreamerShelterHypocriteHome HomeHouse And HomeFirst HomeDream HouseOwning A Home Author:Gaston Bachelard
“The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace” DreamHouseProtectDreamerHome HomeHouse And HomeFirst HomeDream HouseOwning A Home Book:The Poetics of Space Source: The Poetics of Space
“I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting.” GivingDreamWould BeSolitudeLive ByDreamerSummitSplitting Author:Gaston Bachelard
“I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.” IfsThinkingDreamMovingYoungReadingCompanyWrittenPagesHeavyWanderAbandonDreamerAccentsVocabularyStressedSyllablesWritten WordBe YoungOverloadBad CompanyNew CompanyInvert Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.” WorldBearsMarkInfinityDreamerDaydreamingTransport Author:Gaston Bachelard
“By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.” WorldChildrenDreamCertainSeaListeningDreamer 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
“Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.” WayDreamValuesProcessMemoriesTakenForgottenOneselfDreamerReverie Author:Gaston Bachelard
“It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which is not "auto-observant", where we ourselves no longer divide ourselves into observer and observed. Then the dreamer is completely dissolved in his reverie. His reverie is his silent life. It is that silent peace which the poet wants to convey to us.” WantDreamOrderPeacePoetSilentRealmsBarriersDividesDreamerEvidentObserversPsychologistReverieObservant Author:Gaston Bachelard
“The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.” DreamNightDreamer Author:Gaston Bachelard
“A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants to dream well to begin by being happy. Then reverie plays out its veritable destiny; it becomes poetic reverie and by it, in it, everything becomes beautiful. If the dreamer had "the gift" he would turn his reverie into a work. And this work would be grandiose since the dreamed world is automatically grandiose.” IfsMenWorldWantWellsPlayDreamWould BeBeautifulTurnsUniverseDestinyHe ManPoeticDreamerReposeReverieGrandioseAccentuate Author:Gaston Bachelard
