Poetry as Fidelity

POETRY IS THE MIRROR OF LIFE, BUT AT THE SAME TIME IT IS ITSELF LIFE. IN the first dimension, it is that expressive plane where life becomes image. The poet does more than reflect things; he sees things already reflected in reality, already made into real images, as if his vision in certain moments had the faculty of surprising, in the heart of a beam, an unfolding which establishes a tension, a painful and strange tautness between the fleeting phenomenon and its ritardando reflection. This quality of fantastical delay in the marrow of change is that which we call the mirror of life; or, in other words, the glance which is neither speculative nor reflexive, but called to testify by living transparency, which wants to save change as such, without destroying it

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• European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

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