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“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.”

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Gaston Bachelard

A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

“The words of the world want to make sentences.”

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Gaston Bachelard

Quelle: La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960), Ch. 5, sect. 4

“Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.”

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Gaston Bachelard

The Phoenix, a Linguistic Phenomenon, ch. 1
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

“Tree always in the center
Of all that surrounds it
Tree feasting upon
Heaven's great dome”

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“Man is an imagining being.”

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Gaston Bachelard

Quelle: La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960), Ch. 2, sect. 10