"The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities. The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realities is distant and true, the stronger the image will be—the greater its emotional power and poetic reality …"

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Source : "Oeuvres complètes" edited by Marguerite Bonnet, Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1988.

Pierre Reverdy

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