French philosopher (1884-1962)
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
GASTON BACHELARD
The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
GASTON BACHELARD
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
GASTON BACHELARD
The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos
If you consider poetry in all its fire of human becoming, at the summit of an inspiration which delivers the new world to us, what can be the use of a biography which tells us the past, the heavy past of the poet?
GASTON BACHELARD
The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos