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.
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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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Reading alone is not sufficient; one must also write to fully engage with and understand creativity.
This quote emphasizes the importance of writing alongside reading as a means of fostering creativity and self-expression. Bachelard reflects on a time when the act of spelling and writing was intertwined with cultural development, suggesting that literacy and the creativity involved in writing are fundamental to realizing one's dreams and intellectual potential.
Themes
DreamWriteReadCreativityCulture
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the importance of literacy in education.
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