5 Gaston Bachelard Quotes on Dreams

Gaston Bachelard quotes on dreams

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

6. 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.

11. A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

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

16. The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.