Quotes by Bachelard, Gaston

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaseles >>

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language >>

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream whi >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them whe >>

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good d >>

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach tha >>

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Bachelard, Gaston