"'the hand also has its dream,' and each tool has its unconscious..." "the poet knows, even more than the sculptor, the metaphors of hardness."

 "'the hand also has its dream,' and each tool has its unconscious..." "the poet knows, even more than the sculptor, the metaphors of hardness."

from the introduction to 'on poetic imagination and reverie', by gaston bachelard, written by collette gaudin (2014)