One of the characteristics of those who think poetically is to trust the effects of language. Without the violence of an unexpected sense over somebody, without this previous outer experience provoking confusion to what was before an inner experience, without this force breaking up whatever used to be static, there is no poetic. Poetic thought springs up from this confusion between an outer and an inner experience and from the setting up of a mutual permeability zone. Likewise, poetic thought occurs as much to poets as to philosophers, and they together furrow a riverbed of many possibilities so that a new and unpredictable stream of multiple volumes and velocities can flow continuously. Creating one of the most fruitful and intensive s of modern life, Montaigne anticipates many thoughts brought up to date by contemporary thought. For instance, the fragmentation, in which his performance is decisive.
poetry and philosophy; fragmentation; Montaigne