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• 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

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• Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But for all that, would he experience the phenomena of inspiration? His human documentation gathered from inspired poets could hardly be related, except from the exterior, in an ideal of objective observations. Comparison of inspired poets would soon make us lose sight of inspiration.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Inspiration, Sight, Documentation

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

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Memories, Creativity

  Gaston Bachelard (1971). “On poetic imagination and reverie: selections from the works of Gaston Bachelard”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear a glorious tale of his insanity! I have not yet clarified, psychoanalytically, this boredom during the recital of other people's dreams. Perhaps I have retained the stiffness of a rationalist. I do not follow the tale of justified incoherence docilely. I always suspect that part of the stupidities being recounted are invented.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Boredom, People

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• Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Love, Book, Imagination

  "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.

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• It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Wish, Facts, Persons

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• It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Sleep, Naps, Doe

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• The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Vocabulary, Names, Psychology

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• The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Sleep, Insomnia, Soul

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

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• What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?

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  Substance, Nouns, Body

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• In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Light, Poet

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• The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

  Gaston Bachelard

  Poetic, Surface

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• The poetic image exists apart from causality.

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  Causality, Poetic

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• In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is free from all the delays of its genetic evolution, an evolution which is consequently explained by simple psychology. The virility of knowledge increases with each conquest of the constructive abstraction.

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  Knowledge, Cutting, Exercise

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• I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Giving, Solitude

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• Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Giving, Littles, Irony

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