The Poetics of Space

Bachelard, G. and Jolas, M. (1964). The poetics of space. The Penguin Group.

"In this remote region, memory and imagination remain associated, each one working for their mutual deepening. In the order of values, they both constitute a community of memory and image." pg 27

"...we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost." pg 28

"At times, we think we know ourselves in time, when all we know is a sequence of fixations in the spaces of the being's stability - a being who does not want to melt away, and who, even in the past, when he sets out in search of things past, wants to 'suspend' its flight" pg 30

"A poet mediating upon the life of a great poet, that is, Victor-Emile Michelet meditating upon the life of Villers de L'isle - Adam, wrote; 'Alas! We have to grow old to conquer youth, to free it from its feathers and live according to its original impulse." pg 58

"In the lecture given by Jean Hyppolite on the subtle structure of denegation (which is quite different from the simple structure of negation) Hyppolite spoke of 'a first myth of outside and inside.' And he added ; 'You feel the full significance of this myth of outside and inside in alienation, which is founded on these two terms. Beyond what is expressed in their formal opposition lie alienation and hostility between the two" pg 228