To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
Gaston BachelardTo verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
Gaston BachelardTrue poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
Gaston BachelardWe believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic "weight" depending on whether they belong to the language of reverie or to the language of daylight life-to rested language or language under surveillance-to the language of natural poetry or to the language hammered out by authoritarian prosodies.
Gaston Bachelard