Quotes by Bachelard, Gaston

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which k >>

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too >>

Man is an imagining being. >>

Quotations about Words

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party. >>

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please. >>

A single word often betrays a great design. >>

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

Bachelard, Gaston