“We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.” WorldRealHomeDreamValuesLostMemoriesEmotionPoetExpressionComfortOriginalsAddLeavingProtectionStoresHistorianOur MemoriesOutside World Author:Gaston Bachelard
“We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.” RealLostEmotionPoetExpressionHistorian Book:The Poetics of Space Source: The Poetics of Space
“Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.” KnowsDesireCertainPassionReadingPoetReaderTemptationNurtureNobody Knows 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
“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
“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
“In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.” DreamLightPoetReflectingReverie Author:Gaston Bachelard
“It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.” SoulPoetryImaginationCommonConsciousnessPoetOpeningPoeticIntentionality Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But for all that, would he experience the phenomena of inspiration? His human documentation gathered from inspired poets could hardly be related, except from the exterior, in an ideal of objective observations. Comparison of inspired poets would soon make us lose sight of inspiration.” HumansInspirationCoursesIndividualLosesStudyPoetGeniusIdealsDirectSightInspiredObjectivesObservationRelatedComparisonConcretePsychologistExteriorDocumentation Author:Gaston Bachelard
