Gaston Bachelard Real Quotations

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.

The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?