Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. - Gaston Bachelard

How much philosophers would learn, if they would consent to read the poets!

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

If we were to give the imagination its due in the philosophical systems of the universe, we should find, at their very source, an adjective. Indeed, to those who want to find the essence of a world philosophy, one could give the following advice-look for its adjective.