"Poetry is one of the destinies of speech.... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language."
About Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Louis Pierre 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.
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