'the philosophy of poetry must ackowledge that the poetic act has no past , at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed (...). Th epoetic image is not subject to an inner thrust. It is not an echo of th epast. On the contrary: through the brilliance of an image, the distant past resounds with echoes, and is is hard to know what depth these echoes will reverberate and die away. Because of its novelty and its action, the poetic image has an entity and a dynamism of its own; it is referable to a direct ontology.'
'Minkowski's choice of what he calls an auditive metaphor, retentir, is very apt, for in sound both time and space are epitomized. (...) No, it is the dynamism of the sonorous life itself which by engulfing and appropriating everything it finds in its path, fills the slice of space, or better, the slice of the world that it assigns itself by its movement, making it reverberate, breathing into it its own life.'
{Bachelard, Gaston, The Poetics of Space, The classic look at how we experience intimate places, pp. xv-xvii. image: inducedinsanity.tumblr}