Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Gaston BachelardIn order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days when, as Bonnoure says, the letters wrote themselves one by one, either in their gibbosity or else in their pretentious elegance? In those days, spelling was a drama, our drama of culture at work in the interior of a word.
Gaston BachelardAir is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.
Gaston BachelardWhen we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
Gaston Bachelard