Gaston Bachelard

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. ”

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. ”

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

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

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. ”