Gaston Bachelard

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of read more

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.rn

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the read more

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language read more

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.