223 Quotes by Gaston Bachelard

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.

The lock doesn’t exist that could resist absolute violence, and all locks are an invitation to thieves. A lock is a psychological threshold.

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

The metaphor is an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

The poetic image is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.

How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images affect a very simple communion of souls.