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.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

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

Man is an imagining being.

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

There is no original truth, only original error.

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

Gaston Bachelard Quotes