Gaston Bachelard Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

8 Famous Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
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“Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.”
Reverie Quotes
“A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.”
Dreams Quotes
“Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.”
Desire Quotes
“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.”
Books and reading Quotes
“The words of the world want to make sentences.”
Books and reading Quotes
“If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”
Home Quotes
“A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.”
Language Quotes
“There is no original truth, only original error.”
Relationships Quotes