Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break. He rose to some of the most prestigious positions in the Académie française and influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
There is no original truth, only original error.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.