Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
Gaston BachelardEmpirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
Gaston BachelardThe subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
Gaston BachelardLiterary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston BachelardIn our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this growth from us. But there is a growth of being in every instance of awareness. Consciousness is in itself an act, the human act.
Gaston Bachelard