Gaston Bachelard: Citations en anglais

Gaston Bachelard était philosophe français. Citations en anglais.
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“I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”

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Gaston Bachelard livre La poétique de l'espace

Source: The Poetics of Space

“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”

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A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

“We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”

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Gaston Bachelard livre La poétique de l'espace

Source: The Poetics of Space

“I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.”

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

“Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.”

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Gaston Bachelard livre La poétique de l'espace

Source: The Poetics of Space

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

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Gaston Bachelard livre La poétique de l'espace

Source: The Poetics of Space

“A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.”

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

“It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.”

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Gaston Bachelard livre La poétique de l'espace

Source: The Poetics of Space

“We must listen to poets.”

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Gaston Bachelard livre La poétique de l'espace

Source: The Poetics of Space

“The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.”

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Source: The Poetics of Reverie

“A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.”

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A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

“If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”

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Gaston Bachelard livre La poétique de l'espace

Source: La poétique de l'espace (The Poetics of Space) (1958), Ch. 1

“Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.”

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The Psychoanalysis of Fire, ch. 2, "Fire and Reverie" (1938)

“To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.”

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A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

“The reflected world is the conquest of calm”

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Gaston Bachelard livre L'Eau et les Rêves

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

“Poetry is one of the destinies of speech…. One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.”

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Introduction, sect. 2
La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

“Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.”

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A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

“True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.”

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Gaston Bachelard livre L'Eau et les Rêves

Introduction
L'eau et les rêves (Water and Dreams) 1942

“Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.”

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Source: La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960), Ch. 2, sect. 3

“To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.”

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Gaston Bachelard livre L'Eau et les Rêves

Introduction
L'eau et les rêves (Water and Dreams) 1942