Shakespeare’s intellectual action is wholly unlike that of Ben Jonson or Beaumont or Fletcher. The latter see the totality of a sentence or a passage, and then project it entire. Shakespeare goes on creating, and evolving B out of A, and C out of B, and so on, just as a serpent moves, which makes a fulcrum of its own body, and seems for ever twisting and untwisting its own strength.
—S. T. Coleridge, Table Talk (1834)
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The image is the magic lantern which lights up the poets in their darkness. But images aren’t alone. There are passages between them which also must be poetry.
—Jules Supervielle,”Thinking About a Poetics” Mid-Century French Poets, edited by Wallace Fowlie Grove Press, 1955)
—Jules Supervielle,”Thinking About a Poetics” Mid-Century French Poets, edited by Wallace Fowlie Grove Press, 1955)
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