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
The Obama Administration continues to talk about the 'policies of the past' and insist that a return to those policies will lead to disaster.
Marsha Blackburn
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.
Antony Gormley
...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.
Anita Loos
The world, whether we like it or not, will become more and more borderless.
John Key
Multi-touch sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic.
Jefferson Han
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
