Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
Gaston BachelardRead
Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the deep connection between words and the thoughts and dreams they evoke from our past.
Gaston Bachelard reflects on the profound significance of words, suggesting that they are not merely tools for communication but vessels for our memories and dreams. Words carry the essence of our past experiences and emotions, creating a rich tapestry of reverie that influences our perceptions and understanding of the world.
In practice
Using this quote in a literary discussion about the power of language.
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days when, as Bonnoure says, the letters wrote themselves one by one, either in their gibbosity or else in their pretentious elegance? In those days, spelling was a drama, our drama of culture at work in the interior of a word.
How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes.
I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us.
Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.
Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.
PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!
I'm always Peter Pan in my heart
The beauty of darkness _x000D_ is how it lets you see.
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