The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
Gaston BachelardA universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants to dream well to begin by being happy. Then reverie plays out its veritable destiny; it becomes poetic reverie and by it, in it, everything becomes beautiful. If the dreamer had "the gift" he would turn his reverie into a work. And this work would be grandiose since the dreamed world is automatically grandiose.
Gaston BachelardLove is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
Gaston BachelardFor a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
Gaston BachelardIn contrast to a dream a reverie cannot be recounted. To be communicated, it must be written, written with emotion and taste, being relived all the more strongly because it is being written down. Here, we are touching the realm of written love. It is going out of fashion, but the benefits remain. There are still souls for whom love is the contact of two poetries, the fusion of two reveries.
Gaston Bachelard