Gaston Bachelard: Quotes about the world

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“When the image is new, the world is new.”

Gaston Bachelard book The Poetics of Space

Source: The Poetics of Space

“The reflected world is the conquest of calm”

Gaston Bachelard book L'Eau et les Rêves

"Clear Waters, Springtime Waters"
L'eau et les rêves (Water and Dreams) 1942

“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

Introduction, sect. 6
La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

“The words of the world want to make sentences.”

Gaston Bachelard

Source: La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960), Ch. 5, sect. 4

“Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.”

Gaston Bachelard

The Phoenix, a Linguistic Phenomenon, ch. 1
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)