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Poetry

ananda

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2. It was the great Bachelard who said:

Reply to Petrushka (Original post)

Mon Jul 20, 2015, 10:43 AM

Jul 2015

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech.... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

From: La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960) -- Introduction, sect. 2

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