223 Quotes by Gaston Bachelard

The words of the world want to make sentences.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

We believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic "weight" depending on whether they belong to the language of reverie or to the language of daylight life-to rested language or language under surveillance-to the language of natural poetry or to the language hammered out by authoritarian prosodies.

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

Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

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

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and flight of being, evening's crystallization and wings that open to the light.