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Gaston Bachelard Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: Reading, Writing, Best Reading Quotes
“When the image is new, the world is new.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: New Drug, Photography, Seeing Seeing, Make It New, Aesthetics
“One feels that there is something else to be expressed besides what is offered for objective expression. What should be expressed is hidden grandeur.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: expression, Logic Against Logic, Mysticism, The Secret of Secrecy
“We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our evolution is perhaps nothing but an expression of poetry that was lost.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: Historians, Poets, Evolution, Poetry
“At times when we believe we are studying something, we are only being receptive to a kind of daydreaming.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: Daydreaming, studying, Learning, How We Learn
“Forces are manifested in poems that do not pass through the circuits of knowledge.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: Beyond Logic, Forms of Communication, Poetry, Epistemology
“Profound metaphysics are rooted in an implicit geometry.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: Implicit Geometry, Structure Deeper Than Structure, Secretive Designs
“It would be ridiculous, in fact, to ask the dreamer its dimensions.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: Dreams, Dreaming, Dimensions of the Mind, Imagine Bigger Things
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