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Gaston Bachelard Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“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
“All we communicate to others is an orientation towards what is secret without ever being able to tell the secret objectively.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: The Secret of Secrecy, How We Talk, Human Communication
“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
“Our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: Nostalgia, Emotion, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“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
“We are never real historians, but always near poets.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: The Fiction of History, History, Poetics of Memory, Narrative Fallacy
“Facts do not explain values.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: Facts, How We Operate
“The poet keeps the image from becoming motionless.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: Poetry, Word & Image, Keep The Truth Flowing
“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
“The image offered us by reading the poem now becomes really our own. It takes root in us. It has been given us by another, but we begin to have the impression that we could have created it, that we should have created it. It becomes a new being in our language, expressing us by making us what it expresses; in other words, it is at once a becoming of expression, and a becoming of our being. Here expression creates being.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: Poetry, Expression Creates Us
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