Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics Of Space Quotes

When the image is new, the world is new.

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

We must listen to poets.

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.

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

Wolves in shells are crueler than stray ones.