Quote

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

Gaston Bachelard

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gaston Bachelard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 27
Died: 1962
Died: October 16
G 巴什拉
G. Bachelard
Poetry
Consciousness
Imagination
Common
Intentionality
True
Discovers
Soul
Poetic
Opening
Poet

More quotes by Gaston Bachelard

Image
It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this failing asleep, the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
To live life well is to express life poorly if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
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.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Childhood lasts all through life.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Man is an imagining being.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
Gaston Bachelard