“How can secret rooms, rooms that have disappeared, become abodes for an unforgettable past?” HomePastRoomsMemory Book:The Poetics of Space Source: The Poetics of Space
“One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.” PastWiseConnectionsCeaseMoving ForwardMoving OnMaintainingForget The PastLiving In The Past Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It must therefore satisfy both pride and reason, two irreconcilable terms.” PeopleMayTwoSometimesReasonDoneHomeDreamPastHouseSoundTermChildhoodPrideHealthyComfortableLateBuiltOwnershipDesirableConvenientLightersEmbodimentIndomitableDream HouseChildhood Home Author:Gaston Bachelard
“One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.” LovePastTimeMemoriesEffortConnectionsConstantImaginative Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.” KindMayIdeasPastHopeRectification Author:Gaston Bachelard
“The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.” PastContraryPoeticEchoesBrilliance Author:Gaston Bachelard
“The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.” PhilosophyPastAppearancePreparationAcknowledgePoeticRecent Past Author:Gaston Bachelard
“The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.” DoeSoulPastUniverseEdgesReverie Author:Gaston Bachelard
“In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days when, as Bonnoure says, the letters wrote themselves one by one, either in their gibbosity or else in their pretentious elegance? In those days, spelling was a drama, our drama of culture at work in the interior of a word.” WritingEnoughDreamPastOrderCultureReadingDramaLettersInteriorsElegancePretentiousSpelling Author:Gaston Bachelard
