“Reverberation” / the poetic image will have a sonority of being. (2)
‘How can an image, at times very unusual, appear to be a concentration of the entire psyche? How—with no preparation—can this singular, short-lived event constituted by the appearance of an unusual poetic image, react on other minds and in other hearts, despite all the barriers of common sense, all the disciplined schools of thought, content in their immobility?' (3)
‘They must participate in an inner light which is not a reflection of a light from the outside world.’
‘Poetry is a soul inaugurating a form’ (6)
‘As for psychologist, being deafened by the resonances, he keeps trying to describe his feelings. And the psychoanalyst, victim of his method, inevitably intellectualizes the image, losing the reverberations in his effort to untangle the skein of his interpretations.’(8)
For psychoanalyst, the poetic image always has a context.
“Definition of a poet: he who knows, who transcends, and names what he knows.”
There is no poetry without absolute creation. (15)
‘In the theater of the past that is constituted by memory, the stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles. At times we think we know ourselves in time, when all we know is a sequence of fixations in the spaces of the being’s stability—a being who does not want to melt away, and who, even in the past, when he sets out in search of things past, wants time to “suspend” its flight. In its countless alveoli space contains compressed time. That is what space is for.’ (30)
Memory- ‘We are unable to relive duration that has been destroyed. We can only think of it, in the line of an abstract time that is deprived of all thickness. The finest specimens of fossilized duration concretized as a result of long sojourn, are to be found in and through space. The unconscious abides.’ (31)
*And all the spaces of our past moments of solitude, the spaces in which we have suffered from solitude, enjoyed, desired and compromised solitude, remain indelible within us, and precisely because the human being wants them to remain so. He knows instinctively that this space identified with his solitude is creative.
‘we can tell everything about the present but about the past!’
‘What is secret never has total objectivity’ (35)
Centers of boredom = centers of solitude = centers of daydream
‘how happy the child who really possesses his moments of solitude’
‘it is a good thing, it is even salutary, for a child to have periods of boredom, for him to learn to know the dialectics of exaggerated play and causeless, pure boredom.’(38)
‘behind dark curtains, snow seems to be whiter.’
Snow reduces the exterior world/ it gives a single color to the entire universe
‘the winter cosmos is a simplified cosmos’ (61)
Nothing like silence to suggest a sense of unlimited space
‘inhabited space transcends geometrical space’ (67)
‘My house is diaphanous, but it is not of glass. It is more of the nature of vapor. Its walls contract and expand as I desire.’ (71)
‘The image is created through cooperation between real and unreal, with the help of the functions of the real and unreal.’