Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
Gaston BachelardThe reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
Gaston BachelardIrony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.
Gaston BachelardImagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the wind. The imagined tree imperceptibly becomes a cosmological tree, the tree which epitomises a universe, which makes a universe.
Gaston Bachelard