The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
Gaston Bachelard
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More quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
- The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
- Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
- The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.