"The Poetics of Space" Quotes
"The Poetics of Space" by Gaston Bachelard explores how intimate spaces like homes shape our dreams, memories, and sense of being through poetic and philosophical reflections.
philosophy | 282 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
The house is one of the greatest powers of integration for the thoughts, memories and dreams of mankind.
The minuscule, a narrow gate, opens up an entire world.
The imagination functions in this universe as poetic force. It is a force intrinsic to the world, like gravity.
The house is a large piece of furniture.
The house, the corner of a room, the niche of a window, all these are privileged places, the microcosms of day-dreaming.
Space that has been seized upon by the imagination cannot remain indifferent space subject to the measures and estimates of the surveyor.
The house, the place, the space within which we feel secure, is a microcosm of the universe.
The door provides a necessary boundary to the house, but it also suggests its invitation to enter.
