To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
Gaston BachelardPoetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Gaston BachelardActually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital principle would be! And how many dreams the leftward oriented shell, or one that did not conform to the rotation of its species, would inspire!
Gaston Bachelard