The Poetics of Space

I have begun reading Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space, mentioned by my good friend Chuck some months ago.

Already, I've found some quite interesting quotes...just from the Introduction:

If there be a philosophy of poetry, it must appear and re-appear through a significant verse, in total adherence to an isolated image.

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche.

The reader of poems is asked to consider an image not as an object and even less as the substitute for an object, but to seize its specific reality.

Bachelard quoting Pierre-Jean Jouve: "Poetry is a soul inaugurating form."

The poem possesses us entirely.

The image offered us by reading the poem now becomes really our own. It takes root in us. It has been given us by another, but we begin to have the impression that we could have created it, that we should have created it. It becomes a new being in our language, expressing us by making us what it expresses; in other words, it is at once a becoming of expression, and a becoming of our being. Here expression creates being.