bachelard Quotes
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“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.”
- Gaston Bachelard
“Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.”
- Gaston Bachelard
“The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.”
- Gaston Bachelard
“The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.”
- Gaston Bachelard
“A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.”
- Gaston Bachelard