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“We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
“The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.”
― The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos
― The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos
“I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting...”
― The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos
― The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos
“Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade...I live in great density...Shelter lures me. I slump down into the thick foliage...In the forest, I am my entire self. Everything is possible in my heart just as it is in the hiding places in ravines. Thickly wooded distance separates me from moral codes and cities.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
“A creature that hides and “withdraws into its shell,” is preparing a “way out.” This is true of the entire scale of metaphors, from the resurrection of a man in his grave, to the sudden outburst of one who has long been silent. If we remain at the heart of the image under consideration, we have the impression that, by staying in the motionlessness of its shell, the creature is preparing temporal explosions, not to say whirlwinds, of being.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
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Anita’s 2025 Year in Books
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