The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
Gaston BachelardThe image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to study imagination objectively since one really receives the image only if he admires it. Already in comparing one image to another, one runs the risk of losing participation in its individuality.
Gaston BachelardReverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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 BachelardNothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.
Gaston Bachelard