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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

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Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks to you with a monotonous authority which even its author would not have. You are fairly obliged to read what is written.

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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech.... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

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Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard
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Born: June 27, 1884
Died: October 16, 1962 (aged 78)
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