The poetic image exists apart from causality.

The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds…

— Gaston Bachelard

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

— Gaston Bachelard

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

— Gaston Bachelard

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

— Rachel Kushner

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.

— Cecil Day-Lewis

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance…

— Gaston Bachelard

All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness…

— Gaston Bachelard

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

— Gaston Bachelard

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

— Leigh Hunt

“The Estate of Solemnity By right, it reigns in its places- in long beards Of spanish moss hanging from a live oak On a…

— Pattiann Rogers

I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive…

— Jerome Rothenberg

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of…

— Goldwin Smith

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a…

— Luc Ferrari

God's is the causality at the level of our being, and therefore the roots of our freedom. Ours in causality is determinative of what…

— Francis George

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

— Friedrich Nietzsche