Gaston Bachelard Quotes

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Philosopher | June 27, 1884 - October 16, 1962
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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it, but fear I must.
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I can't love you in the dark,
It feels like we're oceans apart.
There is so much space between us,
Baby, we're already defeated.
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If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
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If Socrates died, then either he died when he was living, or when he was dead. But he couldn't have died when he was living, for he was not dead when he was living. But he couldn't have died when he was dead, for when he was dead he had already died. Therefore, Socrates never died.
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His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already—Mom's spaghetti
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Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.
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Sarojini Naidu writes instant poetry where images and metaphors come rolling ready on the hot plates of imagination. Her poetry is intensely emotionally, at times passionate to the point of eroticism and always has a spring.
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Death is nature's way of saying, "Your table is ready.
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Whenever I’m ready to get a six-pack, I will go into beast zone and work my a– off until I have it, But right now, my little FUPA and I feel like we are meant to be.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
Gaston Bachelard
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E-literature is certainly a broader concept than e-poetry, but it can also be limiting: like Verlaine in a famous line from his Art Poétique, one might conclude: et tout le reste est e-littérature, to emphasize the imponderable specificity of poetry.
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
Russians go away, Russian soldiers have to go away from our home country - and after that we are ready to discuss.
Vitali Klitschko