3 Gaston Bachelard Quotes on Memory

Gaston Bachelard quotes on memory

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

13. Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

25. One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.