Bachelard

Famous quotes containing the word bachelard:

    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.
    —Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)

    If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
    —Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)

    Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
    —Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)