Gaston Bachelard Quotes on Art
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True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech.... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.