The quote is part of Gaston Bachelard's book "The Poetics of Space" Chapter 2: House and Universe P.67 (English version). The whole paragraph is: "But after this holiday of the imagination we shall have to return to reality, in order to speak of daydreams that accompany household activities. For they keep vigilant watch over the house, they link its immediate past to its immediate future, they are what maintains it in the security of being." When translated into Arabic, the Arabic translation goes as: بعد هذه الاجازة في عالم الخيال علينا أن نعود إلى الواقع، لنتحدث عن الأحلام التي ترافق الأعمال المنزلية. هذه الأعمال تقوم بمراقبة يقظة للبيت، رابطة ماضيه المباشر بمستقبله المباشر، لتصونه في طمأنينة الوجود The Arabic reference is: جماليات المكان، لغاستون باشلار، الفصل الثاني: البيت و الكون، ص 82 Pay attention that the phrase "لنتحدث عن الأحلام التي ترافق الأعمال المنزلية" is a second part of the first sentence in the paragraph; there's a full stop after it. That's why I quoted the whole paragraph; to understand it better because I got confused when I read it the first time. Also it is للبيت (to the house) not البيت (the house), that completely alters the meaning. The Phrase هذه الأعمال تقوم بمراقبة يقظة للبيت means: these activities keep vigilant watch over the house. Here the word يقظة is an adjective and spelled as (Ya Qi ZaH). For the other phrase هذه الأعمال تقوم بمراقبة يقظة البيت it would mean: these activities watch the vigilance of the house. Here the word يقظة is a noun and spelled as (Ya Qa ZaH).