"And then by diagrams (another mathematical metaphor, or more precisely, at least a geometrical metaphor, but this time garnished with a flower, in order to present the field of a meta-metaphorics):

"If the present work could be retained as a basis for a physics or a chemistry of reverie, as the outline of a method for determining the objective conditions of reverie, it should offer new instruments for an objective literary criticism in the most precise sense of the term.

Bachelard translated by . A. C. M. Ross (Boston: Beacon Press), pp. 109-10, quoted from 'White Mythology - The Flowers or Rhetoric', Margins of Philosophy, Jacques Derrida, 1972.