Gaston Bachelard Quotes about Writing

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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.

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.

Gaston Bachelard

Dream, Writing, Giving

"The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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

Gaston Bachelard

Beauty, Communication, Writing

"Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Gaston Bachelard

Writing, World, Want

"The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold.

Gaston Bachelard

Eye, Writing, Depth