4 Gaston Bachelard Quotes on Art

Gaston Bachelard quotes on art

4. True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

9. Poetry is one of the destinies of speech.... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

19. To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

23. A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.