Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
The poetic image exists apart from causality.
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche
Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?
The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.
The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.
I wanted to be a poet. I had a really romantic idea about what that would mean. My parents knew some poets, and I liked how they dressed and acted, but I didn't really acknowledge that I only liked reading some bits of poetry while I was peeing or something.
