recalling Bachelard’s comment on poetic time in The Poetics… - Gaston Bachelard

" "
recalling Bachelard’s comment on poetic time in The Poetics of Reverie: “In reverie we re-enter into contact with possibilities which destiny has not been able to make use of.

Gaston Bachelard

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

English

Collect this quote

About Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard (June 27, 1884 – October 16, 1962) was a French philosopher of science and literary critic.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: G. Bachelard

All quotes from Gaston Bachelard Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Gaston Bachelard:

Novalis Wallace Stevens Italo Calvino Northrop Frye Jorge Luis Borges

Additional quotes by Gaston Bachelard

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

The brook will nonetheless teach you to speak, in spite of sorrows and memories

All important words, all the words marked for grandeur by a poet, are keys to the universe, to the dual universe of the Cosmos and the depths of the human spirit.

recalling Bachelard’s comment on poetic time in The Poetics of Reverie: “In reverie we re-enter into contact with possibilities which destiny has not… - Gaston Bachelard

About Gaston Bachelard

Also Known As

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI

Additional quotes by Gaston Bachelard

Unlimited Quote Collections