Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade..I live in great density.. Shelter lures me. I slump down into the thick foliage.. In the forest, I am my entire self. Everything is possible in my heart just as it is in the hiding places in ravines. Thickly wooded distance separates me from moral codes and cities.
Gaston Bachelard
The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.
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We must listen to poets.
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Here the phenomenologist has nothing in common with the literary critic who, as has frequently been noted, judges a work that he could not create and, if we are to believe certain facile condemnations, would not want to create. A literary critic is a reader who is necessarily severe. By turning inside out like a glove an overworked complex that has become debased to the point of being part of the vocabulary of statesmen, we might say that the literary critic and the professor of rhetoric, who know-all and judge-all, readily go in for a simplex of superiority. As for me, being an addict of felicitous reading, I only read and re-read what I like, with a bit of reader's pride mixed in with much enthusiasm.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech.. One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
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