Childhood lasts all through life.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Source: Gaston Bachelard, La poétique de l’espace (The Poetics of Space) (1958), Chapter: 1.

Childhood lasts all through life.

Source: Gaston Bachelard, La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960), Introduction, section: 6. Complete Quote: Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life…. Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

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