Childhood lasts all through life.
Published on June 13, 2016 , under Quotes
Source: Gaston Bachelard, La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960), Introduction, section: 6.
Complete Quote: 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.