Quotes from the World for Wednesday 12/19/MMXII

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.

Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962), French scientist, philosopher, literary theorist. “The Phoenix, a Linguistic Phenomenon,” ch. 1, Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988, trans. 1990).