Gaston Bachelard Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• 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.

• Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks to you with a monotonous authority which even its author would not have. You are fairly obliged to read what is written.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Book, Reality, Psychics

• We believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic "weight" depending on whether they belong to the language of reverie or to the language of daylight life-to rested language or language under surveillance-to the language of natural poetry or to the language hammered out by authoritarian prosodies.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Believe, Psychics, Poetry

• This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal creation (as opposed to a didactic statement) from one language to another, he is confronted with two equally unsatisfactory choices. He may, according to his talents, elaborate a similar, but never identical creation, or he may describe that creation as completely as possible in his own language.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Two, Choices, Wish

• Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Destiny, Speech, Language

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

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