“The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.” PastContraryPoeticEchoesBrilliance Author:Gaston Bachelard
“The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.” PhilosophyPastAppearancePreparationAcknowledgePoeticRecent Past Author:Gaston Bachelard
“The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche” SurfacePoetic 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
“Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.” LanguageDestinySpeechPoetry IsPoeticNewness 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
“The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness follows. This reverie is written, or, at least, promises to be written. It is already facing the great universe of the blank page. Then images begin to compose and fall into place.” PoetryFallUniverseConsciousnessStudyWrittenPromisePagesTrackPoeticBlankExpandingReverieFall Into PlaceBlank PagesRight Track Author:Gaston Bachelard
“All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.” PoetryFallConsciousnessRecordsHarmonySensesPoeticReveriePolyphony Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies.” BookIdeasLightAgeMemoriesSimpleOld AgePoetry IsPoeticNew IdeasNew AgeAnimatedUnifiedSprungOld BooksBrochures Author:Gaston Bachelard
