User:Aitantv/Gaston Bachelard (1958) The Poetics of Space

• “Bachelard claims that every true poetic image breaks with linear clock time, introducing a dimension of verticality in depth and height.”

Bachelard maintains that the poetic instant is a “ harmonic relation between opposites”

• “For our house is our corner of the world”
• “In every dwelling, even the richest, the first task of the phenomenologist is to find the original shell” p26
• “all really inhabited space bears the essence of the notion of home” p27
• “If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.” (p28)
• “My bed is a small boat lost at sea; that sudden whistling is the wind in the sails. On every side the air is filled with the sound of furious klaxoning. I talk to myself to give myself cheer: there now your skiff is holding its own, you are safe in your stone boat. Sleep, in spite of the storm. Sleep in the storm. Sleep in your own courage, happy to be a man who is assailed by wind and wave” (p49)
• “Every image is a good one provided we know how to use it” (p49)