3 December 2020 Gaston Bachelard The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
3 December 2020 Gaston Bachelard Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
3 December 2020 Gaston Bachelard A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
3 December 2020 Gaston Bachelard 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.
3 December 2020 Gaston Bachelard Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.