What did Gaston Bachelard mean by: One doesn’t read poetry while thinking of other things. - Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France Copy
+ One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gaston Bachelard, Moving Forward, Moving On, Wise, 0 - Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
+ An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem. Feraz Zeid, June 6, 2023December 12, 2023, Gaston Bachelard, Childhood, Excess, Germs, 0 - Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
+ The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gaston Bachelard, Knowing, Progress, Science, 0 - Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
+ We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection Feraz Zeid, August 26, 2023December 24, 2023, Gaston Bachelard, Comfort, Memories, Protection, 0 - Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
+ One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gaston Bachelard, House, 0 - Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
+ When the image is new, the world is new. Feraz Zeid, October 18, 2023December 26, 2023, Gaston Bachelard, Design, 0 - Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
+ The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gaston Bachelard, Dream, House, 0 - Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
+ If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves? Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gaston Bachelard, Feminine, 0 - Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry. - William Empson Poet and literary critic · England
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
What raises great poetry above all else–it is the entire person and also the entire world. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
