“It must be confessed that the self is nothing but an echo.” Paul Valéry, Cahiers
[“It must be confessed that the self is nothing but an echo.”]
Text quoted from Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, trans by Christopher Fynsk, Stanford University Press 1998:pp.139. Image reproduced from http://armonte.wordpress.com/tag/paul-valery/
“the anti-architectural conception of place making is not a rejection of shelter as such. It is a search for a form of home more adequate to the process of becoming oneself at that place.”
Carter, Paul, Material Thinking: the theory and practice of creative research, Melbourne University Publishing, 2004: pp.154
To stand in the Shadow
of the Wound’s-Mark in the Air.
For no-one and nothing to Stand.
Unknown,
for you
alone.
With all, that within finds Room,
even without
Speech.
To Stand in the Shadow by Paul Celan, text reproduced from http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German/Celan.htm, image reproduced from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vcpb7 For a pdf of Celan’s poems from poemhunter.com click here
Excerpt from A Lovers Discourse
A Lovers Discourse by Roland Barthes consists of a peripatetic fragmentary writing which explores the ‘extreme solititude’ that is a lovers discourse evicted by authoritative discourses, placed outside as it were, yet perhaps spoken by ‘thousands of subjects’. It is as Barthes explains a structural portrait of ‘someone speaking within himself, amorously, confronting the other [the loved object], who does not speak. Barthes takes us on a discursive journey, a performative utterance and structure of address to the other through absence, affirmation, waiting, circumscribing, contingencies, bodies, declaration, embrace, image, the unknowable, langour and silence. Continue reading
‘In Heidegger’s thinking, poetry is not a mere amusement or form of culture but a force that opens up the realm of truth and brings man to the measure of his being and his world.’
Quote from back cover, Extract from Poetry, Language, Thought, The Thinker as Poet, Harper and Row, NY 1971: pp11
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