There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
Gaston BachelardOf course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.
Gaston BachelardThe poetic image [โฆ] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.
Gaston Bachelard