homage for Allan White:
“We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something
closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value
as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same
tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to
our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near
poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry
that was lost.” -Gastan Bachelard (The Poetics of Space)
It seems that many of us have moved recently... that being stated I encourage you to re-read some of this essay. It will make you miss the houses you have left behind and cherish the one you are currently residing in.
Laura, I love this quote and am glad any day the content from The Poetics of Space enter my mind. Thank you.
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