"A magical book… . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced—and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard."
— The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
- from the foreword by John R. Stilgoe
