Chapter 2.VI: house and universe
The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, transl. Maria Jolas
The house conquers its share of sky. It has the entire sky for its terrace.
Chapter 2.VI: house and universe The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, transl. Maria Jolas Daydreams return to inhabit an exact drawing and no dreamer ever remains indifferent for long to a picture of a house.
Chapter 2.V: house and universe The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, transl. Maria Jolas The house acquires the physical and moral energy of a human body. It braces itself to receive the downpour, it girds its loins. When forced to do so, it bends with the blast, confident that it will right itself again in time, while continuing to deny any temporary defeats.
Chapter 2.IV: house and universe The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, transl. Maria Jolas At whatever dialectical pole the dreamer stands, whether in the house or in the universe, the dialectics become dynamic. House and space are not merely two juxtaposed elements of space. In the reign of the imagination, they awaken daydreams in each other, that are opposed.
Chapter 2.III: house and universe The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, transl. Maria Jolas Winter is by far the oldest of the seasons. Not only does it confer age upon our memories, taking us back to a remote past but, on snowy days, the house too is old. It is as though it were living in the past of centuries gone by.
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