Let Me Make A Note of That

"But the image has touched the depths before it stirs the surface.... The image offered us by reading thepoem now becomes really our own. It takes root in us. It has been given us by another, but we begin to have the impression that we could have created it, that we should have created it. It becomes a new being in our language, expressing us by making us what it expresses.... Here expression creates being."

Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space