“A creature that hides and “withdraws into its shell,” is preparing a “way out.” This is true of the entire scale of metaphors, from the resurrection of a man in his grave, to the sudden outburst of one who has long been silent. If we remain at the heart of the image under consideration, we have the impression that, by staying in the motionlessness of its shell, the creature is preparing temporal explosions, not to say whirlwinds, of being.” LifeSilenceHidingIntrospectionIntroversionShellPhil Book:The Poetics of Space Source: The Poetics of Space
“To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.” IfsLifeWellsLive LifeLiving Life Well Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.” WorldLifeChildrenEventsMinorsWorld Events 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
“A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.” LifeBookEverydayEveryday LifeEmergence Author:Gaston Bachelard
“The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.” LifeMatterSpiritualityBirthSubstanceReverie Author:Gaston Bachelard
“A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.” MenLifeLastsClearConscienceEmptyBreathsWorking ManClear Conscience Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for itself. Resting in the heart of words, seeing clearly into the cell of a word, feeling that the word is the seed of a life, a growing dawn... The poet Vandercammen says all that in a line: "A word can be a dawn and even a sure shelter."” LifeLooksHeartSometimesFeelingsLinesGrowingSeeingPoetTiredSeedsCellsDawnShelterRefugeOscillation Author:Gaston Bachelard
“The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn't really our solitude.” LifeDreamPassionStrangeSolitudeRemainsHostilityDaytimeNocturnalOverloaded Author:Gaston Bachelard
