Gaston Bachelard Quotes
The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.
Gaston Bachelard
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
F. Sionil Jose
I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
C. K. Williams
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Walter Pater
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
E. T. Bell
Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
Eddie Izzard
I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
Carla Bruni
I never seem to get past - I feel like a stupid guy from the Midwest.
Alex Graves
I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World.
Anne Hull
Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears to me, overlooked many important truths, which can only be discovered after the subject of rent is thoroughly understood.
David Ricardo
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
Dennis Gabor
'Tis certainly a kind of indignity to philosophy, whose sovereign authority ought every where to be acknowledg'd, to oblige her on every occasion to make apologies for her conclusions, and justify herself to every particular art and science, which may be offended at her.
David Hume
The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.
Gaston Bachelard
